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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

— Audre Lorde

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

— Spider Robinson

Happiness seems made to be shared.

— Pierre Corneille

Happiness is only real when shared.

— Christopher McCandless

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

— George Eliot

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

— Anne Sexton

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

— Harold Kushner

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

— Jean Baudrillard

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

— Brene Brown

✗Opposing Perspectives

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