#shared

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage

Trouble shared is trouble halved. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#shared #trouble

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#bottle #i #lover #met #never

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#around #avoid #because #experiences #families

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#burden #conviction #education #educational #else

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#common #growing #kitchen #life #married

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ↗

— Jack London

#charity #dog #hungry #just #shared

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

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms