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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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compassion
connecting
humanity
inspirational
love
sharing
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Mother Teresa |
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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.
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foolishness
knowledge
sharing
teaching
wisdom
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Hermann Hesse |
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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!
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caring
dancing
devil
forgiving
healing
helping
hugging
inspirational
laughing
learning
life
loving
loving-choices
motivational
sharing
smiling
wondering
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Steve Maraboli |
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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.
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friends
learning
reading
reading-books
sharing
sharing-books
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Henry Miller |
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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.
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eating
food
gardening
happiness
inspiration
motivation
planet
relationships
sharing
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Michael Pollan |
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"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."
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ella
hazel-levesque
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
sharing
the-son-of-neptune
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Rick Riordan |
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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ownership
sharing
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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.
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mourning
pain
sharing
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Neil Gaiman |
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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.
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dignity
equality
sharing
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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.
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christianity
god
heaven
help
kingdom
luxury
money
poverty
provision
riches
sharing
stewardship
wealth
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Randy Alcorn |
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If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
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sharing
trust
truth
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Lloyd Alexander |
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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.
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compassion
evangelism
giving
gospel
greed
hunger
need
prosperity
sharing
starvation
stewardship
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John Piper |
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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.
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fear
peace
power
sharing
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Carl Sagan |
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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)
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excess
generosity
giving
less
money
more
selfishness
sharing
spending
spoil
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.
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heroin
in-midtown-again
needles
poetry
sharing
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Jim Carroll |
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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sharing
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Stephen R. Covey |
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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).
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bonus
christianity
corinthians
excess
giving
god
income
increase
raise
scripture
sharing
standard-of-living
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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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?
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compassion
current
future
hoarding
justice
labor
love
need
neighbor
present
saving
selfish
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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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.
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compassion
future
hoarding
needs
present
protection
saving
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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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.
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sharing
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George R.R. Martin |
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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.
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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
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Marianne Williamson |
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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.
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giving
greed
need
scripture
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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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.
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connection-with-people
friendship
inspirational
knowing-a-person
loyalty
secrets
sharing
sharing-secrets
soul
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Mohsin Hamid |
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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.
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sharing
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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?
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economic-catastrophe
faith
fiscal-cliff
gunpoint
hoarding
protection
provision
resources
sharing
stewardship
survivalism
trust
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Randy Alcorn |
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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.
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friendship
graciousness
guest
hospitality
meals
sharing
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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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?
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life
marriage
promises
sharing
vows
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Jodi Picoult |
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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.)
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discipleship
giving
grip
hoarding
kingdom
possessions
purpose
selfish
sharing
surrender
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Randy Alcorn |
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I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.
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boundaries
healing
healthy-relationships
psyche
sexual-abuse-healing
sharing
soul-journey
support
support-group
support-system
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Maureen Brady |
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You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.
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confiding
everything
sharing
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Rene Denfeld |
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"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?"
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friend
friendship
love
pop-culture
pop-culture-reference
sacrifice
sharing
smurfs
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Rebecca McNutt |
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And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.
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sharing
tiger-rising
trust
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Kate DiCamillo |
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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.
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sharing
sisters
writing
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Miriam Toews |
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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.
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intimacy
sharing
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