#companionship

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#dog #love #relationship #romance #truth

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#companionship #life

I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. " He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#companionship #ethan #love #merit #need

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#desire #love #need #security #sylvia-plath

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ↗

— Mark Twain

#companionship #joy #values

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#human #lonely #need #lonely

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

— Walt Whitman

#contentment #family #family

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

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#companionship #course #happy #happy life #i