Quotes About Dependence

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

To be loved is very demoralizing

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

The days feel like years when I'm alone... when you walk away I count the steps that you take, do you see how much I need you right now?

On my bad days I seek you, on my good days I thank you, on my great days I praise you, but every day I need you, Thank you God for always being here for me.

They looked at each other in dismay, and she knew just what he was thinking. He wanted her gone, but he needed her. She wanted to help, but she wanted to do it wearing britches. Neither of them had a hope of getting what they wanted.

I didn't expect you to do all this work, Maizy. You probably don't even need to come over every day." And that made him feel so sorry for himself. What would he do without her company?

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

Assisted and attended by her younger sister Laura, who was a kind of slave to her - a very colourless young lady in mind, capable of no such thing as an original opinion, and in person a pale replica of her sister.

The man who stands in dependence on another is no longer a man at all, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man.

you'll be your usual overbearing self." Min smiled wanly and allowed him to lead her toward the bedroom. His arm was still around her, she was half-leaning against him. Her head fitted into the crook of his shoulder.

Adoptive parents must begin where the child is developmentally, not chronologically. Healthy dependence must be recreated for the child who is not attached to the adoptive parent, regardless of the child's age. Strategies to foster attachment to the new parents are as important for children who were securely attached and need to transfer their attachment as they are for insecurely or unattached toddlers.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.

I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

The hands of his sadness close around my throat and I can't breathe. I have run out of the enormous love he needs to be all right.

We seem to be moving as a society from a group of expert readers with uniquely personal, internal platforms of background knowledge to a group of expert readers who are increasingly dependent on similar, external servers of knowledge. I want to understand the consequences and costs of losing these uniquely formed internal sources of knowledge without losing sight of the extraordinary gifts of the abundant information now at our fingertips.

Cuando tengo mucho miedo, noto que la mecánica de mi corazón patina hasta tal punto que parezco una locomotora de vapor en el momento en que sus ruedas chirrían en una curva. Viajo sobre los raíles de mi propio miedo. ¿De que tengo miedo? De ti, en fin, de mi sin ti.

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.