The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Interpretation
Sharing joy enhances its value and longevity.
This quote by Anne Sexton highlights the significance of sharing our moments of happiness with others. When we keep our joy to ourselves, it can fade quickly, but when we share it, it grows and can inspire more joy in both ourselves and those around us.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at a wedding to emphasize the importance of sharing happiness in a relationship.
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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