No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Interpretation
We value companions who enhance our self-esteem and affection towards ourselves.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the importance of surrounding ourselves with companions who uplift us and positively impact our self-perception. A good relationship should foster personal growth and satisfaction, making us feel better about who we are.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of relationships in personal development.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.
For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.
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