Companionship Quotes

The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge. What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already know when you are faced with the reality of what your senses tell you to do!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.

~ Anthony Liccione

However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

~ Mark Twain

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

~ R.a. Salvatore

There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends, do it carefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

~ Kent Haruf

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Desires may dry off, bodies may decay, friendship may vanish and positions may be dissolved. One thing will remain; the word of God! In the word is life!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

~ Nema Al-Araby

I never knew You lived so close to the floor,but every time I am bowed down,crushed by this weight of grief,I feel Your hand on my head,Your breath on my cheek,Your tears on my neck.You never tell me to pull myself together,to stem the flow of many years.You simply stay by my sidefor as long as it takes,so close to the floor.

~ Sheila Walsh

Now If diversity were inherently good, inherently valuable, inherently wonderful, why would we have to have the highly-paid profession know as 'diversity consultant' to manage it? Things that are inherently good, to enjoy them, or to make the most of them, you don't need a consultant. You don't need a consultant to make the most out of good-tasting food, beautiful weather, the affection of your friends. Those are inherently good things. Diversity required consultants because diversity is hard. Diversity is difficult. It's because it's difficult for people to try to work, to act, and live together with people who are unlike themselves.

~ Jared Taylor

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

~ Kandi Dougherty

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

~ Anthony Liccione

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

~ Stendhal

Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. “Don’t risk your own safety.”“I bet you’ll risk yours,” Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.“That’s what I’m here for,” Toklo retorted.

~ Erin Hunter

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.

~ Michel Faber

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t underestimate the dreams everyone has, you have no knowledge about the one that would later marry your own. Be each other’s keeper and know that beautiful dreams date only beautiful dreams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Don’t deceive if you don’t want to be deceived. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. Relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Keep it calm and watch the company you keep. It's either a red card or a green card you are holding. One guides you to go on, and the other makes you give up on scoring your goals

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

~ Steve Maraboli

Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.

~ Dennis Prager

There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

~ Betsy Cornwell

Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your dreams again, watch them again, then watch your friends once more and know who to keep away and who to keep nearer!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There comes some special times that you got to keep impossibility thinkers behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Friends who mock your dreams are not qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints every time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

~ Girolamo Cardano

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

~ John Green

Life’s gonna kick you in the butt.That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. Men are never happy unless they're trying to do the impossible. It's why they roam about the world trying to conquer it.

~ Kim Dong Hwa

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

~ Albert Camus

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls down and has no one to help them up. God didn't intend for us to do life alone. So let me ask you, who do you turn to when life hits you hard in the mouth? Your family? Some trusted friends? A teacher or coach? Are you building relationships today that will be there for you tomorrow when adversity comes your way? Do you have humility to look to others for strength and encouragement, or are you holding to the foolish pride that says, I need to make it alone?

~ Kirk Cousins