#companion

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#happiness #friendship

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

#crazy #loneliness #society #solitude #nature

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#companionship #loneliness #comfort

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#beauties #best #both #companion #country

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#different #evening #life #qualifications #require

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#constant #enemy #friend #greatest #her

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#companionship #first #first time #love #marry

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#communicate #companion #concentrate #could #english

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #fraud #in the end #most #part