Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Interpretation
Joy is often a shared experience that requires companionship.
This quote by Henrik Ibsen suggests that while one can endure hardships and challenges alone, true happiness and joy are typically experienced more profoundly when shared with others. It highlights the importance of companionship in the pursuit of joy, indicating that relationships enhance our positive experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of friendship during tough times.
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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