Companion Quotes - Page 11

• Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so do other animals, as Barbara King's poignant book illustrates in compelling detail. How Animals Grieve helps us to connect and to better understand the complex social lives of other animals and of ourselves.

  Gene Baur

  Kings, Book, Animal

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Winter

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.

  Rick Springfield

  Dog, Ideas, Perfect

  Rick Springfield (2010). “Late, Late at Night”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

  Tony Buzan

  Goal, Definitions, Clarity

  Tony Buzan (2006). “The Speed Reading Book: The Revolutionary Approach to Increasing Reading Speed, Comprehension and General Knowledge”, p.38, Pearson Education

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• We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Merit, Lovers

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.426

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• Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding your partner's need for time alone as a threat, see it as a time of renewal that you celebrate. Make every effort to help each other have that space. Treat that space as sacred.

  Wayne Dyer

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Space

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• As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Men, Mind

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

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• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  Epictetus

  Summer, Winter, Opposites

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• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Home, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

  William Safire

  Mind, Able, Familiar

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Weak, Hard

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• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Friendship, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

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• Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Liberty, Conflict, Christianity

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

  Laozi

  Life, Strong, Army

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• Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Faith, Knowledge

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• Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Prayer, Attitude

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Book, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.117, Library of America

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• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

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• What Happens
  
  What happens when your soul
  Begins to awaken
  Your eyes
  And your heart
  And the cells of your body
  To the great Journey of Love?
  
  First there is wonderful laughter
  And probably precious tears
  
  And a hundred sweet promises
  And those heroic vows
  No one can ever keep.
  
  But still God is delighted and amused
  You once tried to be a saint.
  
  What happens when your soul
  Begins to awake in this world
  
  To our deep need to love
  And serve the Friend?
  
  O the Beloved
  Will send you
  One of His wonderful, wild companions -
  
  Like Hafiz.

  Hafez

  Love, Sweet, Laughter

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• Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  House, Catholic, Together

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lessons, Chess, Should

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

  George Santayana

  Love, Sex, Powerful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Goal, Comfort

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• As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

  David Mixner

  Spiritual, Adventure, Healing

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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