Companionship Quotes - Page 3

• I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

  Doris Day

  Dog, Pet Loss, Puppy

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• Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

  Francis Beaumont

  Path, Pity

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• Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Dies

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• A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

  Leslie Ludy

  Home, Leader, Crowds

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• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

  Russell Crowe

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loss

  "My 15 minutes with Russell Crowe". Interview with Emma Brocke, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Wise, Appreciation

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• Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Patience, Thinking, Curves

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.174, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Government, Political, Noble

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1280b.30 - 1281a.3,

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• Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

  Homer

  People, Needs, Use

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• Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humility, Independence, Doe

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• The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Intelligent, Today, Return

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• 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.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Senior, Men, Minorities

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friends, Sympathy, Country

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• How we need another soul to cling to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Soul, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  William James

  Affinity, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Support You

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• 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.

  Luke Davies

  Desire, Depth, Moments

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin

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• We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Friendship, Technology, Creating

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• In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

  Ernst Mayr

  Friendship, New York, Years

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• Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Passion, Kissing, Agreement

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Vegetarianism, Alcohol

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• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  George Archer

  Golf, Hunting, Fishing

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• Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drink, Should, Company

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistles, XIX, 1922.

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• But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

  Wole Soyinka

  Exercise, Kind, Periods

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