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Sharing is about giving and generosity

• Share:  To divide food, money, goods, etc. and give part of it to someone else.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Share:  To partake of, use, experience, occupy, or enjoy with others.  Merriam Webster
• Share:  To divide, apportion, or receive equally.  Dictionary.com
• Giving,  Generosity

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You and your life are a gift to be shared

• The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.   Lloyd John Ogilvie
• You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world. Deepak Chopra
• Life is a gift

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More important that sharing your wealth is sharing yourself

• Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves – – our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. William E. Simon
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Sharing brings great rewards

• Sharing is one of those solutions where you get multiple benefits. It brings people together and helps them save resources and money. It’s also an ideal solution for uncertain times. When you’re in league with others, you can prepare yourself and your community for any type of outcome. Neal Gorenflo
• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.   Robert Brault
• There is no delight in owning anything unshared. Seneca

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Sharing brings happiness

• Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan
• Happiness is in many things. It’s in love. It’s in sharing. But most of all, it’s in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right. John Wooden
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
• Happiness is only real when shared. Jon Krakauer
• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Brontë
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan
• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Og Mandino
• There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. Clement Stone
• This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light-heartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. Deepak Chopra
• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. James M. Barrie
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Sharing gives life meaning

• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.  Mitsugi Saotome     
• Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. Kent Nerburn
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Sharing opens the gates to receiving

• It is in sharing the most, not gathering the most, that the most is received. Neale Donald Walsch
• Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ….and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies. Israelmore Ayivor
• Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.  Brian Tracy
• The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. Leonard Nimoy
• Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others. William A Ward

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Sharing leads to trust

• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. Stephen Covey
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Sharing doubles joys and halves griefs

• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
• Grief shared is grief diminished. Rabbi Grollman
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  Swedish Proverb
• Joy,  Grief

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Sharing is what love is about

• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
• Love is more than a noun — it is a verb; it is more than a feeling — it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. William Arthur Ward
• Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal. Neale Donald Walsch
• Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.  Brian Tracy
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Sharing is what friendship is all about

• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  Khalil Gibran
• Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born. Donna A. Favors
• No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend, to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. Aelred of Rievaulx
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Sharing is what kindness is

• Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. Marc Estrin
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Sharing is what relationships are for

• When we lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of ourselves we would like to experience and express – not what part of another we can capture and hold. Not to have someone to complete us but to have another with whom to share our completeness. Neale Donald Walsch
• I don’t care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. Santosh Kalwar
• The purpose of relationships

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Share your talents and your gifts

• Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us. Paulo Coelho
• Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world. Bill Shore
• Find your own ‘sweet spot’. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.  Kofi Awoonor
• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. Quincy Jones
• Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• You have many abilities that make you uniquely you. Develop and share these talents with the world and you will be successful.  Che Garman
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Share knowledge and ideas

• Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter. Gilbert Amelio
• I understand that we’re smarter than me.That’s one reason I like the idea of sharing. Toba Beta
• In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals. Marcia Conner
• In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.  Joseph Badaracco
• One of the fastest ways to learn new ideas and techniques permanently is to share them with other people immediately after you learn them. Brian Tracy
• Our best thoughts come from others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. The Dalai Lama
• The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia
• Knowledge,  Ideas

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Share your love and goodness

• If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. John O’Donohue
• Love,  Goodness

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Share your sense of wonder, especially with children

• If a child is to keep alive his or her inborn sense of wonder, he or she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with the child the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
• Wonder,  Raising children

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Share your light

• If you have a candle, the light won’t glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine. Steven Tyler
• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
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Share pleasure

• For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. Virginia Woolf
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  Khalil Gibran
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Share excitement

• Contained exhilaration is not nearly as exciting as its release… accept challenge! What excitement do you have to share with the world?  Lorii Myers
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Share fun

• The more fun you have, the greater your value to yourself and to your society. The more fun you share with others, the more fun you have.  Bernie DeKoven
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Share joy …

• Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, that’s when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don’t smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine. Israelmore Ayivor
• The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lorde
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  Swedish Proverb
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… but also share your pain and tears

• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. A. Salvatore
• If life is a journey, then let my soul travel and share your pain. Santosh Kalwar
• No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend, to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. Aelred of Rievaulx
• Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain–to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves. M. Scott Peck
• Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.  Robert Brault
• The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. Lois Lowry
• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri J.M. Nouwen
• When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. Ann Brashares
• Tears,  Pain

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Share your problems and troubles

• A problem shared is a problem halved. Proverb
• Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.  Dinah Shore
• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. Dag Hammarskjold
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Share all parts of yourself, not just the good, for this is true intimacy

• Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval. Paulo Coelho
• To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Criss Jami
• Wealth is a measure of the degree to which we are willing to share intimacy with our world. Nut Tmu-Ank
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Share in the suffering of others through the practice of compassion

• We share with all life the capacity for feeling, the experience of having a body, mind, and heart in continual interface with countless other bodies, minds, and hearts. Our capacity to feel deeply means we share with all life the possibility of experiencing delight, joy, trust, and intimacy, just as we share in the capacity to experience pain, sorrow, grief, and fear. Living within a physical body, we all share the experience of aging, frailty, illness, and death, just as we share the precious times of strength, health, safety, and vitality. Through our minds we share the capacity to experience confusion, agitation, and complexity, just as we share the possibilities of serenity, clarity, and balance.  An understanding of this profound interconnectedness of all life is at the root of the compassionate heart dedicated to alleviating suffering without reservation or exception.  Christina Feldman
• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. Henri J.M. Nouwen
• Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people’s suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal. The Dalai Lama
• Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?  Gary Zukav
• Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more human world. Martin Lowenthal
• Compassion,  Suffering

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Share in the rewards

• Share in rewards and give credit and praise. Kate McKay

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Share your appreciation

• Who needs to know how much you appreciate them? Are you willing to share appreciation today? Appreciation is a loving way to communicate that you don’t take yourself or people for granted!  Iyanla Vanzant
• Appreciation,  Gratitude

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Share values and responsibilities

• Find people who share your values, and you’ll conquer the world together. John Ratzenberger
• Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can’t escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits. Bill Clinton
• Tough times expose shared values. John Haas
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Share your books

• I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home. Ernest Morgan
• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. Katherine Mansfield
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Share meals

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher

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Share what you have for the betterment of others

• 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. Leo Buscaglia
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Share your truth

• No human being on the face of this earth possesses the whole truth. Each of us has only a small part; but if we are willing to share our small parts, our pieces of the truth, we will all possess a much fuller reality, a much larger share of the total truth. . . . It’s hard to imagine that a person could be totally wrong about any complex issue.  Everyone has some part of the truth to share. John Powell, S.J.
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Share your journey …

• I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening. Cheryl Richardson
• If life is a journey, then let my soul travel and share your pain. Santosh Kalwar
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… especially your spiritual journey

• Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. Dan Wakefield
• The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. Buddha

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Share experiences

• We don’t live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people’s experience as a reference too. Nike Thaddeus
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• You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all. Jarod Kintz
• When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. Michael Isenberg
• Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. Calvin Trillin
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
• I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella. Jimmy Cannon
• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. Oprah Winfrey
• Punctuality: Something that if you have it, there’s often no one around to share it with you.  Baker Hylda
• The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.
• There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age. Benjamin Spock
• They lived together for 60 years without a single argument. Their secret?  They shared the same hearing aid!
• Watching them was like watching two men who’d been thrown out of an airplane trying to share the same parachute. Clive James

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