Quotes About Dependence

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

Here's the thing about horses--evidently if they hang out together a lot, they buy into this whole "best friends forever" thing, and when one of them suddenly bolts, the other feels obligated to join in the fun and frolics.

Whatever it takes to get you to the place where God is your all in all and you live in total dependence on Him is worth the pain. Let

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. —the Dalai Lama

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Conflict is one of the many tools that God will use to help you develop a more Christ-like character. To begin with, he may use conflict to remind you of your weaknesses and to encourage you to depend more on him (2 Cor. 12:7–10).

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

Tog dana vra?aju?i se iz hotela plaza govorila je sama sebi da je njen ponosni gest, koji bi Zejnil smatrao bezumnim, važniji za dijete od svih pelena na svijetu, jer smješteno u njoj tako intimno zavisno od nje ono mora upiti u sebe njenu pobunu i prkos.

Ah si je pouvais moins l'aimer, ne pas être si maladroite, si anxieuse de lui plaire, si je pouvais montrer de l'indifférence. Alors elle m'aimerait, j'en suis sure. Mais on dirait que je lui pèse...Que de fois ne m'a-t-elle pas reproché de l'étouffer?

Woman without her man has no reason for living. With a colon and a comma, the writer would get a different reaction: Woman: without her, man has no reason for living.

A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Fuel-efficient my big engine is not. I drove 38 miles and burned through more than a quarter-tank of expensive premium gas. Every time I accelerated I could sense a Saudi Arabian somewhere was smiling.

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.

Nobody can spare themselves the waiting and most will be unable to bear this torment, but will throw themselves with greed back at men, things, and thoughts, whose slaves they will become

no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is,51 on whom he depends and whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself), and to what end he was made.

In order to free the fiction of the sovereign State – in other words, the whims of those who manipulate it – from every wholesome restriction, all sociopolitical movements tending in this direction invariably try to cut the ground from under the religions. For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

The natural course of life demands that the young person should sacrifice his childhood and his childish dependence on the physical parents, lest he remain caught body and soul in the bonds of unconscious incest. This regressive tendency has been consistently opposed from the most primitive times by the great psychotherapeutic systems which we know as the religions

Now that they got you little girls they won't have no use for me," she said, and a single tear snaked down her cheek.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it

There is, however, an important corollary to this idea: Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. Much in the same way that athletes must take care of their bodies outside of their training sessions, you'll struggle to achieve the deepest levels of concentration if you spend the rest of your time fleeing the slightest hint of boredom.

But together she and Gustav seemed even weaker than they did individually. If they hadn't joined forces against the threat that Ruben represented, which had held them together like glue all these years, Vivi knew they never would have survived.

Never a choice. Always being rescued.