Companions Quotes
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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Lao Tzu
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The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
Dan Greenburg
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Gautama Buddha
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
Cassandra King
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Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
Cassandra King
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
George Stillman Hillard
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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
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We had each journeyed to this office from our own distant planet of illness. Though strangers, we became instant, silent companions. We were here for the same purpose: to describe our alien experience to the doctor in hope of survival advice.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
Jane Austen
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I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Adolf Hitler
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
George Eliot
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
Jane Austen
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
Ezra Pound
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
Rumi
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Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
Genghis Khan
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Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.
Gautama Buddha
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot
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A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.
Ernest Holmes
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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
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
Betty MacDonald
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.
Charles Dickens
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
Emily Dickinson