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090884d If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. compassion connecting humanity inspirational love 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. foolishness knowledge sharing teaching wisdom 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! caring dancing devil forgiving healing helping hugging inspirational laughing learning life loving loving-choices motivational sharing smiling wondering 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. friends learning reading reading-books sharing sharing-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. eating food gardening happiness inspiration motivation planet relationships sharing 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 hazel-levesque heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians sharing the-son-of-neptune Rick Riordan
32c43ea Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. ownership sharing 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. dignity equality sharing 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. christianity god heaven help kingdom luxury money poverty provision riches sharing stewardship wealth Randy Alcorn
3276314 If you want truth, you should begin by giving it. sharing trust truth 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 evangelism giving gospel greed hunger need prosperity sharing starvation stewardship 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 peace power sharing 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) excess generosity giving less money more selfishness sharing spending spoil stewardship Randy Alcorn
6948b44 Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe. heroin in-midtown-again needles poetry sharing Jim Carroll
8c08a62 Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. sharing Stephen R. Covey
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 christianity corinthians excess giving god income increase raise scripture sharing standard-of-living stewardship 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? compassion current future hoarding justice labor love need neighbor present saving selfish sharing stewardship 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. compassion future hoarding needs present protection saving sharing stewardship 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. blessings-quotes charity compassion empathy generosity giving inner-peace kindness peace-of-mind power-of-love power-of-thoughts prayer prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered prosperity selflessness sharing thoughtful wish-creation wishes-fulfilled Marianne Williamson
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. giving greed need scripture sharing stewardship Randy Alcorn
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. connection-with-people friendship inspirational knowing-a-person loyalty secrets sharing sharing-secrets soul Mohsin Hamid
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 faith fiscal-cliff gunpoint hoarding protection provision resources sharing stewardship survivalism trust Randy Alcorn
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 graciousness guest hospitality meals sharing Barbara Kingsolver
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? life marriage promises sharing vows Jodi Picoult
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.) discipleship giving grip hoarding kingdom possessions purpose selfish sharing surrender Randy Alcorn
c425739 I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily. boundaries healing healthy-relationships psyche sexual-abuse-healing sharing soul-journey support support-group support-system Maureen Brady
6ba2d5a You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say. confiding everything sharing Rene Denfeld
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?" friend friendship love pop-culture pop-culture-reference sacrifice sharing smurfs Rebecca McNutt
9475ad6 And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell. sharing tiger-rising trust Kate DiCamillo
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. sharing sisters writing Miriam Toews
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. intimacy sharing Daphne du Maurier