38 Powerful Quotes On Sharing

In a world that often focuses on individual achievements, it's essential to remember the profound impact that sharing can have on our lives and communities. Sharing knowledge, experiences, and even resources can bridge gaps and foster connections that might otherwise remain elusive. To inspire a more giving spirit, we've curated a collection of the top 38 powerful quotes on sharing. These quotes, gathered from diverse voices and times, remind us that the simple act of sharing can create ripple effects far beyond our immediate reach. Dive in and discover how sharing, at its core, is the essence of human connection and generosity.

1. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” - Mother Teresa

2. “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

3. “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse

4. “It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. ” - Snoop Dogg

5. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.” - Henry Miller

6. “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” - Adelaide Hoodless

7. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ” - Michael Pollan

8. “I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.” - Antonio Porchia

9. “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing.” - Carl Sagan

10. “For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.” - Virginia Woolf

11. “When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.” - Clarence Darrow

12. “Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.” - Henri Nouwen

13. “How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?” - Rabih Alameddine

14. “We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.” - Walter Benjamin

15. “You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.” - Albert Camus

16. “Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.” - Stephen R. Covey

17. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” - Brian Tracy

18. “I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.” - George Clooney

19. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.” - Dalai Lama XIV

20. “The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.” - Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq'ij of the Eagle Clan

21. “Hey, Ethan.""Yeah?""Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?""The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice."He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.” - Kami Garcia

22. “This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!” - Steve Maraboli

23. “How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?” - Cameron Conaway

24. “If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.” - Mortimer J. Adler

25. “Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.” - Neil Gaiman

26. “Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).” - Randy Alcorn

27. “Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)” - Randy Alcorn

28. “When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.” - Randy Alcorn

29. “I like to share, because if I do not share, I'll do exactly the same thing, but unfortunately alone.” - Oscar P M Lopes

30. “...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.” - Wess Stafford

31. “Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.” - Mike Schmoker

32. “She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality — she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.” - Ravindra Shukla

33. “Friends share all things.” - Pythagoras

34. “God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.” - John Piper

35. “Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.” - Aberjhani

36. “good dreams can be inspirations to bring in to make reality fantastic enough to share” - julia woodman

37. “Love is not what others feel about you,,,, its what feeling you share with others.” - Swavin Joysury

38. “Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.” - Todd Stocker