#Sharing Quotes

“As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.”

“Knowledge exists to be imparted.”

“A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.”

“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”

“Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.”

“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

“Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.”

“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

“I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.”

“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”

“Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.”

“He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.”

“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.”

“It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.”

“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”

“Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.”

“It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.”

“For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”

“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”

“Friends should have all things in common.”

“Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.”

“A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”

“When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.”

“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.”

“I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.”

“Life is better when you share it.”

“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.”

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”

“I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.”

“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

“There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.”

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

“We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.”

“If you have, give. If you learn, teach.”

“I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.”

“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”

“A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.”

“A joy shared is a joy doubled.”

“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”

“What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.”

“If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.”

“There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.”

“That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.”

“I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.”

“In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”

“Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.”

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

“No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.”