Circles Quote by Thomas Browne

Share or not share your joys and sorrows, their own ways of transmission are

— Mak_786

“Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?”

— Sophocles

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's…

— Fulton J. Sheen

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

— Marie Brennan

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

— Gautama Buddha

Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others,…

— Susan Wittig Albert

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not…

— Khalil Gibran

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life -…

— Virginia Woolf

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not…

— John Calvin

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are contemptible to…

— John Bradshaw