Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.
Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.
Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.
Hymns are companions for life travelers.
Choose your companions before you choose your road.
If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
