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• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.81, Random House

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• [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Yellow, Brain

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.65, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Christ

  "William Jennings Bryan's Last Statement: Bryan and Darrow at Dayton". Book edited by Leslie H. Allen, bertie.ccsu.edu. 1925.

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• The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Tree, Vines

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.495, GENERAL PRESS

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• Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Office, World

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Divine Right, Mind, Separation

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  Richard L. Evans

  Character, Common Purpose, Perfection

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Stars, Father

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• This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Good Friend, Path

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• The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Imagination, Routine

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• I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Thinking, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

  Robert Reed

  Jobs, Fiction, Nebraska

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• The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Friendship, Party, Opportunity

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100

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• We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

  Jonathan Coe

  Drinking, Coffee, People

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• The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Daughter, Son, Given

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• Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Wind

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• A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Solitude, Return

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• When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Emotion, Overflow

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.295, Northwestern University Press

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• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Drinking, Sleep

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.94, University of Iowa Press

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• There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Adults, Needs

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• When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.

  David A. Bednar

  Blessing, May, Ghost

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• A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

  Pam Brown

  Dog, Heart, Joy

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• Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Communication, Blessing

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• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Years, Cynical

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

  Judith Jamison

  Fall, Opposites, Soul

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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