Mark Twain Quotes

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

When people get emotional and sing the song with you - it's an incredible thing.

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Music is everybody's possession.

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.