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“To be a man is...to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), aviator, writer “Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.” —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), scholar, writer, philosopher “If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.” —Arabic proverb “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 “Work is love made visible.” —Khalil Gibran (1883– 1931), artist, poet, and writer “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft (1907-1973), poet. exerpt from "Love" “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” —George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), novelist and critic “The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it away.” —Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960), song writer “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” —Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), professional tennis player “The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.” —Toni Morrison, author, editor, professor, Nobel Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize winner “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 (1934-1992), poet, famous quotes “Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.” —Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763-1842), writer, politician “We confirm our reality by sharing.” —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934-2002), writer, publicist “To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others…that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.” —Clifford Geertz, anthropologist “People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it’s the togetherness of modern technology.” —J. G. Ballard, writer “... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.” —Sharon Olds, poet “We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), philosopher, writer “What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community.” —T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, critic “Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.” —Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893), 19th U.S. president
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