Dar Williams Quotes

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

You can never have too many friends.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.