Companionable Quotes

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

I guess that is what dying must be like;

to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice.

You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen.

Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.