Quotes About Dependence

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

People refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. They want someone to tell them what to do, and they want someone to blame when it all goes wrong.

The rose tree needs the rain to survive, as well as the sun.

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.

social fabric of our society as well as the natural environment on which all business, and indeed all life, depends.

Later on, I see how often therapists keep patients coming to them, not so much for the benefit of the patients but to satisfy the therapists' need to help - and because of their own inability to recognize the clients' actual independence. (148)

He had been, he thought, her friend, when in fact he had always been her entire world. Inside

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

Miró a Gertrudis en busca de ayuda, pero ésta seguía callada, replegada en sí misma como uno de esos moluscos de nombres raros que ofrecían en el Mercado Central las vendedoras de pescado.

Ella nunca me había amado, pero me tenía confianza, el cariño que despierta un criado leal.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.

Get real up to a certain age, you need your parents, then later, they need you.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other... Thus men, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented.

Every Christian must be a broken person. To enter the kingdom, we must acknowledge that the inner peace we yearn for can never come by our own efforts but only by admitting we are powerless to conquer our self-centeredness and by turning over the rule of our life to Christ. Our sinful hearts show themselves through what we do and what we fail to do. We end up broken not only because we are victims but also because we have hearts of rebellion and stubborn independence.

but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that.

A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.

She was like a dog or a child, and was unable not to be true. Lizzie was longing for a little mock sympathy

Hers was one of those feminine hearts which cling to a husband, not with idolatry, for worship can admit of no defect in its idol, but with the perfect tenacity of ivy. As the parasite plant will follow even the defects of the trunk which it embraces, so did Eleanor cling to and love the very faults of her husband.

No one dependent on him! Are not his father and his mother and his sisters dependent on him as long as he must eat their bread till he can earn bread of his own? He will never earn bread of his own. He will always be eating bread that others have earned