Companionship Quotes

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.

Heartfelt and willing obedience invites the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Baptism by water leads to the authorized opportunity for the constant companionship of the third member of the Godhead.

I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

There is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough