Quotes About Companionship

My resolution this year is to get a dog and practice loving something back.

Tell me how you need us." "I think this will be just the two of us." But as Jon took up his fork, he gave Matt a look. "Still, thanks for all of it. Thanks for being here when I needed it. As usual." "I will not be hugged," Matt said sternly. Jon considered the food. "You"re awfully nurturing for someone who doesn"t hug." "Eat it and shut up, or you"re fired.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

A one-way relationship can't cure loneliness. Only two-way (or more) relationships can do that.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

To speak the truth, as truth to me appeared, Caused noisy protests, I was hooted down. Such unpleasant incidents occurred That I ran off so as to be alone, Into the wilds. Utterly forsaken, I took at last the Devil for companion.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

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

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.