20 phrases about sharing life with others
In an increasingly self-centered and individualistic time, learning to share who we are is the only way to take on the challenge of being ourselves again. These phrases of life help us reflect on this issue.
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20 PHRASES ABOUT SHARING WITH OTHERS
“You are born alone and you die alone, and in the parenthesis the loneliness is so great that you need to share life to forget it,” said psychoanalyte Erich Fromm. And there are many thinkers, figures from politics, literature and culture who have spoken about the need to share experiences with others. These deep , witty and intelligent phrases help us reflect on this issue.
1. “WHEN IT RAINS I SHARE MY UMBRELLA, IF I DON’T HAVE AN UMBRELLA, I SHARE THE RAIN.” (ENRIQUE ERNESTO FEBBRARO)
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“The pleasure of reading is double when you live with another person with whom to share the books.” (Katherine Mansfield)
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“I believe that it is still not too late to build a utopia that allows us to share the land.” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
4. “SHARING A SMILE IS A COMBINATION OF KINDNESS AND WISDOM.” (BURGESS MEREDITH)
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“Loneliness is admired and desired when it is not suffered, but the human need to share things is evident.” (Carmen Martin Gaite)
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“It is much more beautiful to illuminate than simply to shine; in the same way, it is more beautiful to transmit to others what has been contemplated than just to contemplate.” (Saint Thomas of Aquino)
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“Love was sharing the same mountains, even though each one looked at them differently.” (Paulo Coelho)
8. “WHAT IS YOURS IS MINE, AND WHAT IS MINE IS YOURS.” (PLATO)
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“Nothing in this dirty life is worth two bucks if you don’t have someone to share it with.” (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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“Throwing the bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is sharing the bone with the dog when you are as hungry as he is." (Jack London)
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“All pleasure languishes when not enjoyed in company.” (David Hume)
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“No good is enjoyed without company.” (Lucius Anneo Seneca)
13. “ISN’T THAT WHAT MUSIC IS? SHARING IT WITH OTHERS.” (ADAM LEVINE)
- “If you share your bread, you will like it better. If you share your happiness then it will increase.”
(Phil Bosmans)
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“And they lamented how much life it had cost them to find the paradise of shared solitude.” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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“I like to share the things that I know and that have worked for me in life.” (Reuben Blades)
17. “WHOEVER DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SHARE LACKS EMOTIONS.” (MARC LEVI)
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“You are born alone and you die alone, and in the parenthesis the loneliness is so great that you need to share life to forget it.” Erich Fromm
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“Coexistence is, above all, sharing, participating in the life of others and making the other participate in their own.” (Enrique Rojas)
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“If you share your problems with a friend, you cut them in half; if you share your joy, you double it”. (Tony Salerno)
Fernando Torrijos
Are we victims of the Age of Self? It is a logical question if we observe that issues such as self-realization, personal growth or overcoming limitations become centers of interest in our societies, in which the struggle for survival has passed to the third level for the majority. Which is very good.
The paradox is that more and more human beings , once their basic and even superfluous material needs are met, instead of enjoying life, often show erratic tendencies , mentally capsize, and experience psychological crises with some frequency .
GO FROM I TO US
It is worth asking what degree of responsibility this epidemic of self-absorption that we suffer can have in this situation; that pathology that generates the egocentric perspective with which more and more people try to solve their problems; a point of view that starts from the premise that said problems are somehow created by the Others .
The Others are those who are neither Me nor like Me. They are too many, they are foreign to us… And they even dare to interfere in our way and frustrate our dreams.
Sometimes we identify with them momentarily, because in what happens to them we are able to perceive a reflection of what could happen to us , but it is usually a pleasant feeling of compassion that does not last long.
Luckily, not all those who are not Me are Others. At the midpoint of this constant struggle are the Others : those who have abandoned alterity to the extent that their lives matter to us. It is about the people who, without being me, are part of me ; for this reason, to define them, I integrate them with myself in a superior unit that I call Us .
There are us, like the family , whom we have not chosen: they are the result of a chance that we do not understand but that roots us in life. Others, like friends or a partner , are the result of a consensus of mutual choices ; the limits are the colleagues with whom we share jobs or hobbies.
The absence of a superior unit marks our life: loneliness is nothing but the lack of us.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SHARING
Possibly we are victims of the Age of Me, but let’s not forget that, more than hate or accident, what generates victimization is usually bad choices , denial of problems or fear of change… And a wrong understanding of reality.
What if the usual explanation of the individual Self is a myth and what really counts is our social Self ? What if the “we” to whom we feel we belong are more important than those who preach Ego worship admit?
In the “production” of us , there is no doubt, chance intervenes. But it is the fruit, above all, of shared work , of daily chores, of the sum of details, of knowing that one is close by in the distance.
One proposal to grow is to recover the Others to outline who we are beyond what we see , symbolically, in the mirror.
Forget the self-absorption and feel them as the part of us that they are; accept them in order to come to accept us, and not so that they accept us ; fight to know them as a way to get to know each other; love them to continue loving us.
To recover being “ourselves” and meditate, while we share, that old Arab saying that affirms that Hell is nothing but Paradise without people.