Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
Honduran Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow
SWEDISH PROVERB Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division.
R.A. SALVATORE A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
ENGLISH PROVERB A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
AMERICAN PROVERB Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is li...
R.A. SALVATORE Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is lif...
R.A. SALVATORE Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that ...
RUCKETT Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
SPIDER ROBINSON A joy shared is a joy doubled
C.S. LEWIS Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy.
SPIDER ROBINSON Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN Joy lives concealed in grief.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
SWEDISH PROVERB Wisdom comes through many shared moments of joy.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AESCHYLUS AESCHYLUS Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AESCHYLUS No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
HENRY CAREY There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
DANTE The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the h...
LEIGH BARDUGO And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL What is Friendship when complete?
'Tis to share all joy and grief;
'Tis to lend all due rel...
ANNE FINCH Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief,some joy ...
JOHNNY CASH Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with...
MARK TWAIN JOY is a deceptive trap; grief is the real preceptor, teaching caution, circumspection, discriminati...
ATHARVA VEDA Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER Tears shed for happiness laughter joy and grief never be afraid to let them fall
DARLENE WATSON Shared sorrow is half sorrow
DANISH PROVERB And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each...
JIM BISHOP The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Our hearts are filled with joy this morning. Together we have endured uncertainty, hope, fear, grief...
DOUG PRITCHARD I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
INGA MUSCIO In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se...
MAHAVIRA words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...
JODI PICOULT No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one an...
FRANZ SCHUBERT That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
MARY OLIVER No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one a...
FRANZ SCHUBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rag...
JOHN ARMSTRONG A lot of the (participants) are creative people, so this is a good way for them to have an outlet fo...
JEAN PRICE Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it...
MARK TWAIN He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief
Perhap...
WILLIAM COWPER Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For pr...
ROBERT BURNS "When we've been there 10,000 years..." / We'll see all trips were brief, / For there love's joy wil...
DAVID L. HATTON Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
FRANCIS BACON SR. What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I lov...
HELEN KELLER Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Our family is a circle of love and strength. With every birth and every union, the circle grows. Eve...
ANTHONY BRANDT I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
GERRY ADAMS Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and lov...
JANDY NELSON Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
JACQUELINE CAREY There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy, some grief...
JOHNNY CASH Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it o...
DENNIS LEHANE Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize ...
MARIE LU Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reac...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd b...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where...
WALTER WANGERIN JR. For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY Gloom is a grief.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between th...
AUDRE LORDE Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: ...
MARK DOTY Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky...
WILLIAM MORRIS Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' ...
ROBERT BURNS The more deeply we dive, the less we mind upsetting waves, finding within intimate relationship an i...
ROBERT AUGUSTUS MASTERS I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble s...
VIKKI WAKEFIELD They shared how they had lost six family members. As we prayed, the woman broke into sobs of grief f...
DOUG STRINGER Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Grief is grief. It's always a little backwards when a young person dies, regardless of their age.
DONNA DEEDS Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
DENNIS LEHANE Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so t...
DIANA JABER Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
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PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
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PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
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