Company We Keep Quotes

• Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

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  Thomas Carper

  Children   Company We Keep   Choices  

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Thomas Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

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  Alain de Botton

  Friendship   Travel   Company We Keep  

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• It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

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  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep   Expectations   Curiosity  

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• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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  Epictetus

  Friendship   Best Friend   Uplifting  

  "The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell". Book by Epictetus, 1994.

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• What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue... And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

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  Yasmin Mogahed

  Eye   Heart   Company We Keep  

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• This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.

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  Shane Claiborne

  Country   Rights   Iran  

  Source: medium.com

  2004

• We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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  Tryon Edwards

  Life   Book   Reading  

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 465), 1891.

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