Best 223 quotes in «companionship quotes» category

With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.

You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers; you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

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.

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.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

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.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.

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.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

I find running life quite hard and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

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.

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.

It's weird not having companionship and not having somebody to talk to. I have two goldfish in my hotel room. They said, "If you would like companionship, we can bring you a goldfish." I was like, "Bring me a goldfish!" I have two because when I needed the water changed they brought another one. I was like, "Don't take Desmond!

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).

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.

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

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

The most important thing in my life is Christ.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?