Best Companionship Wisdom
354 Companionship quotes by 275 unique authors
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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…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...
— Nicholas Sparks
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I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love.…
— Roberto Bolano
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I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest…
— Dean Koontz
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In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They…
— John Grogan
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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…
— Jack London
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Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
— Leo Tolstoy
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
— Jodi Picoult
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to…
— Bertrand Russell
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
— Richard Russo
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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.
— Suzanne Collins
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But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when…
— James M. Barrie
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They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They…
— Rick Riordan
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I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and…
— William Styron
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I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of…
— Heidi Julavits
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This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The…
— Muriel Barbery
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No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love…
— Susan Sontag
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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
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