Quotes about Companionship

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.

People are more important than fussing over preparations. Why, I haven't even been good company for Wynn, I realized, looking back in humiliation over some of our last evenings spent together. Well, I would change that. After all, a marriage was of far more importance than a wedding.

All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.

The love of life begins with the love of one person.

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the mining of life by ourselfs alone- we find it with another

Clearly, having friends improves our lives. And best friends? They make every good thing even better.