quotes about Companionship
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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 those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
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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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
-- David Niven -
When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
-- Deb Caletti -
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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 -
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
-- Dorothy DaySource : "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day". Book by Dorothy Day, 1952.
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Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
-- Elaine S. Dalton -
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 you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
-- Francesca Annis -
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
-- Francis Beaumont -
You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Isolation offered its own form of companionship
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
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Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life and he can be sure that in eternity he will have as his lot the service and the companionship which he preferred in this life. This is what the Lord means when He says, 'If anyone is my servant let him follow Me and where I am he will be there as my servant' (Jn. 12:26).
-- John Cassian -
Solitude sometimes is best society.
-- John MiltonSource : 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 249
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.
-- John Wyndham -
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
-- Joshua SlocumSource : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books
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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
-- Julian Barnes -
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 DaviesSource : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin
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Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.
-- Lysa TerKeurst -
The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke -
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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.
-- Mark Rothko -
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
-- Mark Rothko -
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
-- Max MullerSource : Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.162, Lulu Press, Inc
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Stay away from a companionship that does not benefit you with knowledge.
-- Muadh ibn Jabal -
There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.
-- Patrick Carman -
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
-- Richard Russo -
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
-- Robert Genn -
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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 -
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.
-- Sue Monk Kidd -
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
-- Theophrastus -
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
-- Vince Gill -
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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 -
I enjoy the friendship and companionship of others
-- Leon Nacson -
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.
-- Sheldon Harnick -
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
-- Charles BuxtonSource : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
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