sharing

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
090884d	If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.	compassion humanity love inspirational connecting sharing	Mother Teresa
3be0613	Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.	wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching	Hermann Hesse
b7acc23	This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!	loving-choices learning motivational life inspirational wondering hugging forgiving loving dancing laughing healing sharing caring smiling helping devil	Steve Maraboli
5c01ba7	A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.	reading friends learning sharing-books sharing reading-books	Henry Miller
7cedbdd	The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.	relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food	Michael Pollan
f1335ca	"You both passed out," Percy said. "I don't know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were...sharing?" "Sharing," Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn't look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. "Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts." Percy scratched his head. "Yeah...we've been having conversations like that all night. I still don't know what she's talking about."	ella sharing the-son-of-neptune heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians hazel-levesque	Rick Riordan
32c43ea	Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.	sharing ownership	Ursula K. Le Guin
1607266	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.	mourning pain sharing	Neil Gaiman
0fc82a2	Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.	equality sharing dignity	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2967688	Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.	money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom	Randy Alcorn
3276314	If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.	trust truth sharing	Lloyd Alexander
338a657	God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.	compassion greed stewardship evangelism giving sharing starvation gospel hunger prosperity need	John Piper
9146bd4	Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together -- surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing.	fear sharing peace power	Carl Sagan
aaff25d	God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)	money spoil less spending more excess stewardship giving sharing generosity selfishness	Randy Alcorn
8c08a62	Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.	sharing	Stephen R. Covey
6948b44	Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.	poetry in-midtown-again sharing needles heroin	Jim Carroll
793c75a	Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).	bonus raise standard-of-living christianity god corinthians increase excess stewardship giving income sharing scripture	Randy Alcorn
739196e	Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?	current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice	Randy Alcorn
28f6785	When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.	present future compassion hoarding stewardship needs sharing saving protection	Randy Alcorn
97afb9e	Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.	sharing	George R.R. Martin
36dbedc	The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.	prayer kindness empathy compassion blessings-quotes peace-of-mind prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered wish-creation wishes-fulfilled power-of-love giving charity sharing generosity selflessness prosperity inner-peace thoughtful power-of-thoughts	Marianne Williamson
2a6177a	Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.	friendship inspirational connection-with-people knowing-a-person sharing secrets sharing-secrets soul loyalty	Mohsin Hamid
54b1f36	Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.	greed stewardship giving sharing scripture need	Randy Alcorn
6e81a65	But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.	sharing	Ursula K. Le Guin
dc08992	If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?	economic-catastrophe fiscal-cliff gunpoint faith trust provision survivalism resources hoarding stewardship sharing protection	Randy Alcorn
c65fb76	Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?	marriage life vows sharing promises	Jodi Picoult
a2fdba6	As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.	friendship guest hospitality sharing meals graciousness	Barbara Kingsolver
c425739	I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.	healthy-relationships support-system sexual-abuse-healing soul-journey psyche boundaries support-group healing sharing support	Maureen Brady
4f7e9f7	Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)	possessions hoarding giving sharing discipleship selfish grip purpose kingdom surrender	Randy Alcorn
349cf3d	"It's true, I guess, that no matter how much it sucks, you're supposed to sacrifice things for a friend. It was a concept that he hadn't understood earlier on in his life. In elementary school, Bernie had been assigned 'Charlotte's Web' to read, and he'd always found it selfish how Charlotte the spider gave everything she had to Wilbur the pig, all her time and energy trying to keep this pig alive and off the farmer's dinner plate, only to end up dying in the wispy remains of her last cobweb. "That pig was a selfish bastard who whined too much." He hadn't understood why, in his college days watching 'The Smurfs' cartoon on TV just to pass the time, the evil wizard Gargamel had kept his bratty little apprentice, Scruple, around with him even when there was no incentive to do it and it would have been more convenient to just get rid of him. "Well, you give and you give and you give, you sacrifice things for somebody even when you normally wouldn't, but you get back something worth having, maybe. Something worth all that sacrifice... I mean, what's life worth if you have nobody to share it with, anyway?"	sacrifice friendship love pop-culture-reference smurfs pop-culture sharing friend	Rebecca McNutt
6ba2d5a	You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.	confiding sharing everything	Rene Denfeld
9475ad6	And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.	trust tiger-rising sharing	Kate DiCamillo
17a9d2c	I looked at him over my glass of citronade. It was not easy to explain my father and usually I never talked about him. He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone, much as Manderley was preserved for my neighbour. I had no wish to introduce him casually over a table in a Monte Carlo restaurant. There was a strange air of unreality about that luncheon, and looking back upon it now it is invested for me with a curious glamour. There was I, so much of a schoolgirl still, who only the day before had sat with Mrs Van Hopper, prim, silent, and subdued, and twenty-four hours afterwards my family history was mine no longer, I shared it with a man I did not know. For some reason I felt impelled to speak, because his eyes followed me in sympathy like the Gentleman Unknown.	sharing intimacy	Daphne du Maurier
8f0cf2e	You've finally written it? That's great! She asked me if I'd read to her from it and I said no. Just a paragraph? No. A sentence? No. Half a sentence! One word? No. A letter? I said okay, that I would read the first letter of the novel. She smiled and closed her eyes and sort of burrowed into her bed like she was preparing herself for a delicious treat. I asked her if she was ready and she nodded, still smiling, eyes closed. I stood and cleared my throat and paused and then began to read. L. She sighed and lifted her chin to the ceiling, opened her eyes and told me it was beautiful, BEAUTIFUL, and true, the best thing I'd written yet.	writing sharing sisters	Miriam Toews

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

compassion humanity love inspirational connecting sharing

Mother Teresa

3be0613

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching

Hermann Hesse

b7acc23

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

loving-choices learning motivational life inspirational wondering hugging forgiving loving dancing laughing healing sharing caring smiling helping devil

Steve Maraboli

5c01ba7

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

reading friends learning sharing-books sharing reading-books

Henry Miller

7cedbdd

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food

Michael Pollan

f1335ca

"You both passed out," Percy said. "I don't know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were...sharing?" "Sharing," Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn't look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. "Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts." Percy scratched his head. "Yeah...we've been having conversations like that all night. I still don't know what she's talking about."

ella sharing the-son-of-neptune heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians hazel-levesque

Rick Riordan

32c43ea

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

sharing ownership

Ursula K. Le Guin

1607266

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.

mourning pain sharing

Neil Gaiman

0fc82a2

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

equality sharing dignity

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2967688

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom

Randy Alcorn

3276314

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

trust truth sharing

Lloyd Alexander

338a657

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.

compassion greed stewardship evangelism giving sharing starvation gospel hunger prosperity need

John Piper

9146bd4

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together -- surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing.

fear sharing peace power

Carl Sagan

aaff25d

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

money spoil less spending more excess stewardship giving sharing generosity selfishness

Randy Alcorn

8c08a62

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

sharing

Stephen R. Covey

6948b44

Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.

poetry in-midtown-again sharing needles heroin

Jim Carroll

793c75a

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

bonus raise standard-of-living christianity god corinthians increase excess stewardship giving income sharing scripture

Randy Alcorn

739196e

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice

Randy Alcorn

28f6785

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

present future compassion hoarding stewardship needs sharing saving protection

Randy Alcorn

97afb9e

Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.

sharing

George R.R. Martin

36dbedc

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

prayer kindness empathy compassion blessings-quotes peace-of-mind prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered wish-creation wishes-fulfilled power-of-love giving charity sharing generosity selflessness prosperity inner-peace thoughtful power-of-thoughts

Marianne Williamson

2a6177a

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.

friendship inspirational connection-with-people knowing-a-person sharing secrets sharing-secrets soul loyalty

Mohsin Hamid

54b1f36

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

greed stewardship giving sharing scripture need

Randy Alcorn

6e81a65

But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.

sharing

Ursula K. Le Guin

dc08992

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

economic-catastrophe fiscal-cliff gunpoint faith trust provision survivalism resources hoarding stewardship sharing protection

Randy Alcorn

c65fb76

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

marriage life vows sharing promises

Jodi Picoult

a2fdba6

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

friendship guest hospitality sharing meals graciousness

Barbara Kingsolver

c425739

I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.

healthy-relationships support-system sexual-abuse-healing soul-journey psyche boundaries support-group healing sharing support

Maureen Brady

4f7e9f7

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

possessions hoarding giving sharing discipleship selfish grip purpose kingdom surrender

Randy Alcorn

349cf3d

"It's true, I guess, that no matter how much it sucks, you're supposed to sacrifice things for a friend. It was a concept that he hadn't understood earlier on in his life. In elementary school, Bernie had been assigned 'Charlotte's Web' to read, and he'd always found it selfish how Charlotte the spider gave everything she had to Wilbur the pig, all her time and energy trying to keep this pig alive and off the farmer's dinner plate, only to end up dying in the wispy remains of her last cobweb. "That pig was a selfish bastard who whined too much." He hadn't understood why, in his college days watching 'The Smurfs' cartoon on TV just to pass the time, the evil wizard Gargamel had kept his bratty little apprentice, Scruple, around with him even when there was no incentive to do it and it would have been more convenient to just get rid of him. "Well, you give and you give and you give, you sacrifice things for somebody even when you normally wouldn't, but you get back something worth having, maybe. Something worth all that sacrifice... I mean, what's life worth if you have nobody to share it with, anyway?"

sacrifice friendship love pop-culture-reference smurfs pop-culture sharing friend

Rebecca McNutt

6ba2d5a

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

confiding sharing everything

Rene Denfeld

9475ad6

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

trust tiger-rising sharing

Kate DiCamillo

17a9d2c

I looked at him over my glass of citronade. It was not easy to explain my father and usually I never talked about him. He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone, much as Manderley was preserved for my neighbour. I had no wish to introduce him casually over a table in a Monte Carlo restaurant. There was a strange air of unreality about that luncheon, and looking back upon it now it is invested for me with a curious glamour. There was I, so much of a schoolgirl still, who only the day before had sat with Mrs Van Hopper, prim, silent, and subdued, and twenty-four hours afterwards my family history was mine no longer, I shared it with a man I did not know. For some reason I felt impelled to speak, because his eyes followed me in sympathy like the Gentleman Unknown.

sharing intimacy

Daphne du Maurier

8f0cf2e

You've finally written it? That's great! She asked me if I'd read to her from it and I said no. Just a paragraph? No. A sentence? No. Half a sentence! One word? No. A letter? I said okay, that I would read the first letter of the novel. She smiled and closed her eyes and sort of burrowed into her bed like she was preparing herself for a delicious treat. I asked her if she was ready and she nodded, still smiling, eyes closed. I stood and cleared my throat and paused and then began to read. L. She sighed and lifted her chin to the ceiling, opened her eyes and told me it was beautiful, BEAUTIFUL, and true, the best thing I'd written yet.

writing sharing sisters

Miriam Toews