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Quotes About Sharing

If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.
~ Seth Godin
We have unlimited reasons to hide our work and only one reason to share it: to be of service.
~ Seth Godin
Any idea withheld is an idea taken away. It's selfish to hold back when there's a chance you have something to offer.
~ Seth Godin
When you seek to share your best work—your best story, your shot at change—it helps if it's likely to spread. It helps if it's permanent. But even if it's extraordinary, it's not going to make a difference if you drop it in the ocean. That doesn't mean you give up hope. It means you walk away from the ocean and look for a large swimming pool.
~ Seth Godin
Freely given, freely shared, between true companions and friends." That was an old phrase, but Gran had made sure I knew all the old phrases. JoAnn looked—and according to the land, felt—startled. For a long moment, she didn't move, then she smiled again—a little less firmly—and took the bag from me. "The feast increases, with the goodwill of all.
~ Sharon Lee
If you gotta leave before I come back, I want to thank you for sharing the music. Remember that you're not alone, ever; that there's always the music, connecting all of us, and the whole world, too.
~ Sharon Lee
Sharing food is a metaphor for all giving. When we offer someone food, we are not just giving that person something to eat; we are giving far more. We give strength, health, beauty, clarity of mind, and even life, because none of those things would be possible without food. So when we feed another, this is what we are offering: the substance of life itself.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
~ Sherman Alexie
She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.
~ Sherman Alexie
So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.
~ Sherman Alexie
I'd rather have my eyes gouged out. (Urian) If I do that, can the Simi eat them? (Simi) You have to share if you do! (Xirena)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
~ Dalai Lama
Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.
~ David McCord
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
~ Elie Wiesel
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
~ Emily Dickinson
Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.
~ Frank McKinney
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.
~ Nick Burd
When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.
~ Peter M. Haas