Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Joys divided are increased.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

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

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

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.

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.