"Grief can take care if itself, but..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
More by Mark Twain
“He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.”
“The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.”
“Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.”
More on Joy
“Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.”
“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.”
“There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.”