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Quotes About Sharing

It's as if you were giving me a part of you," said Vanessa.
~ Roberto Bolano
Le parole sono doni, sono semi da mandare, perché sono semi buoni, a chi noi vogliamo amare.
~ Roberto Piumini
It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
~ Robin Epstein
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
~ Robin Hobb
A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.
~ Robin Hobb
What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.
~ Robin Hobb
Some people say there is relief in the sharing of cares and pains. To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring of still suppurating wounds.
~ Robin Hobb
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.
~ Robin Hobb
Not every problem in the world belongs to you alone, Badgerlock. Let others have their share.
~ Robin Hobb
Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.
~ Robin Hobb
What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one other. It is power. It is a bond. It may be a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.
~ Robin Hobb
A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell one person, and it's a secret no more. - Chade Fallstar
~ Robin Hobb
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~ Robin Morgan
The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
This is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Of course you should write about it. It's supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We've been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they'd understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn't be in this mess.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Our teacher, Justin Neely, a young man devoted to language revival, explains that while there are several words for thank you, there is no word for please. Food was meant to be shared, no added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given that one was asking respectfully. The missionaries took this absence as further evidence of crude manners.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
there is no word for please. Food was meant to be shared, no added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given that one was asking respectfully.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Many of our ancient teachings counsel that whatever we have been given is supposed to be given away again.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer