Quotes About Dependence

leave everything to God. That way I know it's not my decision

Beggars can't be choosers.

We are not the masters of our own destinies. We are called to plan and strategize, to work and live active lives, to attempt things that are beyond us and tackle challenges that stretch us to the limit. Yet the outcome of our efforts, even our ability to exert ourselves, is always in God's hands.

My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. The silence of a firelit room when suddenly the clock stops ticking, the nervous shadows in an empty house — it is better to take in your mortal enemy than face the terror of living alone.

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I'm goin' with you.

And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

Beggars can't be choosers.

It's not his job to mind her, or is it? Perhaps that's a job he's given himself, placing himself in a position of importance for his own ego.

I wake up in the morning and feel like I'm missing something. I know there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is... then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

She was all that I knew, all that was dear. I'd loved her and she'd loved me. Now I was alone in the world. How would I do without her? My thoughts echoed the landlady: What would become of me?

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.'

And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.

Call on Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. The whole life of a Christian is a praying, waiting life.

As the light depends on the sun, or the shadow on the body that casts it, so we also depend on God; without Him, we can do nothing

Angel began to comfort and reassure her, thinking to himself, truly enough, what a creature of moods she was, and how careful he would have to be of her when she depended for her happiness entirely on him.

Measure your own value in terms of the security and happiness of those who depend on you.