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Quotes About Companions

A person who expects support or appreciation for his good efforts from own companions like friends, relatives or even family members will either not be able to initiate anything worthy or trip midway while going towards the destination.
~ Anuj Somany
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Danger, a quest, three figures. They are close to you, but they are not your friends." She let my hand go. "Beware of them!
~ Gail Carson Levine
Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
~ Robyn Davidson
We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Presently I went back to my Companions, and slept under the apple trees, wrapped in my cloak and with my head on Cabal's flank for a pillow. There is no pillow in the world so good as a hound's flank.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
~ Ruckett
INSTEAD OF having brothers and sisters to grow up with in India, I had as my companions an odd assortment of pets, which included a monkey, a tortoise, a python and a Great Indian Hornbill.
~ Ruskin Bond
When did the body first set out on its own adventures? Snowman thinks; after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul, for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel or else a puppet acting out their dramas for them, or else bad company, leading the other two astray.
~ Margaret Atwood
One of the hardest lessons I had to learn was that I was going to need a lot of help, and for a long time. (Even this morning.) What saved me was that I found gentle, loyal and hilarious companions, which is at the heart of meaning: maybe we don't find a lot of answers to life's tougher questions, but if we find a few true friends, that's even better.
~ Anne Lamott
My grief for Aaron would never go away, and I'd endured it for years without a word to either of my vampire companions, Louis or Lestat.
~ Anne Rice
Hmmm, very good," he said. "All my companions are of the best blood." "You're telling me," said my Master. I couldn't rip my eyes off him, off his changing face. It seemed now his cheeks did darken, or maybe it was only their curve as he smiled. His lips were rosy. "And I'm not finished, Amadeo," he whispered. "I've only begun.
~ Anne Rice
As modern society reduced the role of community, it simultaneously elevated the role of authority. The two are uneasy companions, and as one goes up
~ Sebastian Junger
you get on well and with whom you can discuss all the things that take your fancy or that you find unpleasant. There may well be some among your own attendants who don't disappoint in conversation, but the problem is that they're people you see every day. Men must feel the same way, since they make a point of inviting others along when they go off on expeditions.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
~ Paulo Coelho
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
~ Laozi
There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture. The butcher comes and fetches one today, another tomorrow. The rest feed on and take no notice of what is become of their lost companions. 'Tis as if a company of condemned persons (reprieved for a time) should be appointed to be executed one after another...
~ John Fox
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
~ John Grogan
His pilots. And no, frankly, just his pathway to other worlds, but personal friends, all three of them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There was a streak of austerity in him that welcomed hardship, and even, he imagined, was ready to welcome pain. It bred courage, it sifted the true from the false, and courage and truth were companions who would outpace all the others; when dreams had withered and happiness was forgotten they were still there. For their sakes he was prepared to suffer much himself and to see others suffer. Lucilla had been right to recognize in his face that night a hint of ruthlessness.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Como acaba de leer el señor secretario, se trata de elegir entre nuestros compañeros a dos hombres buenos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte