Quotes About Dependence

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support

Spouses depending on each other too much was what wrecked marriages!

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support — and better at giving it.

I didn't know how to be in the world without her.

Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don't care what their job is--they know the queen is their mother. She's the mother of thousands.

also learned a model of relating that unwittingly promoted women's psychological dependence on men and male authority. Women's personal journeys, goals, and quests were encouraged only to the extent that they didn't interfere with those of husband or children. A woman's surrender of herself on behalf of the rest of the family was (and often still is) extolled as the highest virtue.

This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available.

Because He knew that no matter what we did, we would always need Him.

When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it's harder than ever to use those experiences to grow. But growing up, I have argued, has been dogged by dilemma ever since it was a real option. As Enlightenment philosophers knew, it's a process that is as socially determined as it is profoundly individual.

Sometimes, Blister was thinking, the only person in the world she could really count on was herself, and that was not enough.

She realized that no matter how old she got or how far she traveled, she would never stop needing her mom. Now, staring her in the face, was the possibility of a loss so devastating Sonnet didn't see how she could survive it.

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They're rather sweet together. In some ways they are more like twins than lovers. They have that utter trust in each other; that dependence on the other half to make a proper whole.

How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.

I couldn't do this on my own. And like D.H. Lawrence said, We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along who seemed to know better than I did what they were doing.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Siempre tuve miedo de dormir antes que ella, sin saber la causa. Aun adorándola, era algo así como dar la espalda a un enemigo. No podía soportar la idea de dormirme y dejarla a ella en la sombra, lúcida, absolutamente libre, viva aún

Sos más en mí que yo de mí. Te existo, péndulo del aire.

Responsibilty, she discovered, was a sort of drug.

I lay my worries at Your feet. Thank You, Lord, for the mighty ways You deliver me. You are my rock and shield.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

It is His will that I should cast My care on Him each day. He also bids me not to cast My confidence away. But Oh! how foolishly I act, When taken unaware, I cast away my confidence, And carry all my care.