#companion

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us. ↗

— James Frey

#fellowship #togetherness #life

Who are we without our memories? ↗

— Marta Acosta

#la-vie #life #memories #truth #life

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#english #had #kindly #learn #letters

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#companion #patience

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough ↗

— Walt Whitman

#contentment #family #family

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#approach #aware #become #companions #had

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#companion #grownup #life

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#companions #family #go #himself #his

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage