Quotes About Dependence

woman she pays to take care of her, she is as alone as a person can be. She has never tried to

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

The grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

As psychotherapist Dr Alice Miller says: 'the grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help and grace as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day. If the day had even more hours, then I would need His help and grace during those hours as well.1 —MOTHER TERESA

I know now that I'm not trusting anyone or anything any more. And that it is hard to live for long periods without trusting anyone or anything. It's like living without sleep; eventually it will kill you.

I remembered the man I'd fallen for after my father died. I'd hardly known him, but it didn't matter. I'd recruited him to serve my loss, made him everything I needed.

I know now that it is hard to live for long periods without trusting anyone or anything. It's like living without sleep; eventually it will kill you.

I resent this man. Why should the happiness of the whole civilised world depend on him?

Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?

And no matter how many times the girl offered her hand, her mother refused it. It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one. Really the mother's pursuit of pills wasn't motivated by the necessity of avoiding pain, but a determination to avoid any feeling at all. That's why the pills were better than holding the child's hand.

Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth… than that of the perfect dependence of the "moral" sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question comes back thus, obviously, to the kind and the degree of the artist's prime sensibility, which is the soil out of which his subject springs.

being a manager' means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others

She can break your fall Or let you fall and break And every time you jump You just know she's going to catch you

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.

Trebuie s?-i mul?ume?ti Lui ?i tot Lui s?-i ceri ajutor. Numai în El vom g?si lini?tea, mângâierea, salvarea ?i iubirea, ad?ug? ea ?i, în?l?ându-?i privirea la cer, începu s? se roage, dup? cum în?elese Alexei Alexandrovici din t?cerea ei.

The same is true of the rich and the lazy. If they do not work but rely on the labor of others, they cannot be good either, no matter how much they pray or sacrifice.

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.