There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

Sometimes to make no move is to make the wrong move. That’s how I fell in love with a statue. We just sat still and I formed a connection.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

He banged on the side of the carriage. “Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

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.

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of...

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walkonly on feelings. That faces upwardand in its mirrorreceives heavenly roads, which travelalong themselves.That has learned to walk upon waterwhen it scoops,that walks upon wells,transfiguring every...

And that’s my comfort–that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn’t seem to like...

There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.

Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.

Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Don’t deceive if you don’t want to be deceived. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. Relationship is mutual. This is the...

That’s what I’m here for,” Toklo retorted.

So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklace, drunken bellfor your hands smooth as grapes.And I watch my words from a long way off.They are more...

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because “emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge”. What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already...

When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.No law less than ourselves owning,...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.

I want someone to sit beside after the day’s pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy – to be alone with...

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and...

However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We’d be so blissfully happy we wouldn’t know...

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with...

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

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.

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

So you shun me? – you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was...

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

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

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you’re never alone if you read.

. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What...

There comes some special times that you got to keep “impossibility thinkers” behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) “Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other...

There are many ways of attaining the various levels of human bliss. But one of the highest states of mental, spiritual and physical happiness is readily reached by way of a good meal, pleasant company,...

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself...

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be...

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...

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Eva: I don’t want any tea. Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.