A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Everyone smiles, when they are with you. Please... from now on, go and help people in my place. Share your happiness with them.
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.
What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our sense of what it means to be alive. In terms of dharma practice, a true friend is more than just someone with whom we share common values and who ...
The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the verge of understanding something large and important. It seemed to him that this moment—the light and wind, the sweep of fields, the fall...
In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to let go of my idea of myself, to take myself with more than one grain of salt... In religious terms, this is simply a matter of accep...
Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.
For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.
I wish I were like Facebook; being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get.
We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.
It's not about blood," says Lucius. "It's about who you share your life with. Where you feel you really belong.
