Quotes About Companionship

A fluff ball is a perfect pet: it exists only for your affection. You take care of it—and it purrs at you; what more do you want from a pet? A pet is a substitute infant—but multiply it by one million and it's a parasite.

God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don't you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale

Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

It's impossible to pick up a basset hound that doesn't want to be picked up, just as it's impossible to make one keep walking if it doesn't want to walk anymore. It'll just lie down and refuse to budge.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions. He feels too sensibly, how much all the rest of mankind fall short of the notions which he has entertained. And, his affections being thus confined within a narrow circle, no wonder he carries them further than if they were more general and undistinguished.

The French word copain came about because your friends (copains, from compagnons) are the people with whom you break bread, or share pain.

David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

What God cares about most is that we are His friends.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.