Sharing quotations

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◆ When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

- Basil the Great99

◆ Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

- Victoria Moran99

◆ When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

- Clarence Darrow99

◆ Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen99

◆ Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ You can share in my joy, but I don't want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

- John Wesley99

◆ I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

- Ernest Morgan99

◆ Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

- Dalai Lama XIV99

◆ And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual's function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you're in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

- Timothy Leary99

◆ The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

- Criss Jami99

◆ True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ If you are hurt by someone you love and treasure most, forgive them for they taught you the lesson when it comes to sharing or giving your trust to people.

- Christine Gallego99

◆ Be careful with whom you share your secrets. Don't forget your best friend has a best friend, and your best friends best friend also has a best friend.

- Vikrant Parsai99