#companions

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#baby #companions #free #good #good teachers

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#brought #care #companionship #contributes #go

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#because #companions #different #does #drummer

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#bucket #choose #companions #down #draws

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#companionship #friendship #love #friendship

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. ↗

— Eda LeShan

#life #loneliness #values #death

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#earthy #hope #innocence #love #optimism

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#companionship #couples #friendship #love #friendship

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

#endurance #friendship #friendship

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#dead-people #writing #friendship