Companion Quotes - Page 37

• Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ease, Demand, Path

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 11

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• Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

  Frank Herbert

  Surroundings

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.155, Penguin

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• My journal is my life's companion.

  Christina Baldwin

  Journal, Journaling

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Pleasure, Form

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.

  Michael Hersch

  Art, Essentials, Imagine

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• Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

  Robert Beverly Hale

  Want, Kind, Persons

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• I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Aversion, Taste, My Own

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

  Walter Farley

  Horse, Book, Goes On

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• Thank you, restlessness, as challenging a traveling companion as there could be. In the end, my embrace of you was what sent me on the only search that really counts. Responding to you was the stirring that led me to sit every morning and to venture into that invisible terrain where seeker and sought merge and rest together, once and for all eternity.

  Rod Stryker

  Morning, Challenges, Together

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• Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.

  Ken Wahl

  Military, Animal, People

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• I always, I would say, make sure that in my presentation I'll have what I want to do. I try and make it so interesting to my companions that they want to go, too. I don't have to twist any arms or make - you know - any great challenges available.

  Edmund Hillary

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. Janury 26, 2008.

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• I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges.

  Edmund Hillary

  Team, Ideas, Challenges

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Solitude, Parks

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• And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Warrior, Saint, Praying

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.181, e-artnow

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• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Adventure, Order, Needs

  Katharine Butler Hathaway (1946). “The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith”

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• Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men and do not veil themselves, though they are assiduous in attending prayers. Any man who wishes to marry one of them may do so, but they do not travel with their husbands, and, even if one desired to do so, her family would not allow her to go. The women have their 'friends' and 'companions' amongst the men outside their own families.

  Ibn Battuta

  Prayer, Husband, Book

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• I've been following Jesus for 35 years. He's guided me, comforted me, encouraged me, challenged me, befriended me, and been my constant companion since November 8, 1981.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Years, November

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1261, Delphi Classics

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• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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• You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you.

  Isaac Newton

  Hurt, Food, Sleep

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• Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Talking, Mind

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• The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, True Friend, Giving

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• Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  Men, Evil, Water

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

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