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Quotes About Dependence

One must therefore overcome one's way of thinking about things exclusively in terms of assertion or denial. As it is said, Instead, to grasp the emptiness of things And still depend upon the karmic law of cause and fruit— It's this that is more wonderful than wonderful, More marvelous than marvelous!8
~ Jamgön Mipham
When the world comes to an end, we'll all still be trying to charge our phones. Until the last second.
~ Jami Attenberg
t is a lonely washin' that hasn't a man's shirt in it.
~ Jan Karon
I try to wait for Him to make the darkness light, then grow afraid and try to create the light on my own.
~ Jan Karon
She was going to have to learn to trust God. Completely
~ Jan Karon
Lord, if this is Your answer, then You've got to help me do this thing. I know how You feel about fear, and I agree. But I'm scared stiff and You know it, and I'rn needing a generous hand-out of grace.
~ Jan Karon
I know, and I appreciate that," says Dinah, getting up to extract a container of yogurt from the fridge, which completes her improvised dinner—"but I have to say that I am really, really tired of having to ask you to do things.
~ Jancee Dunn
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
~ Jane Austen
A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs.
~ Jane Henry
A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs. So when I begin training a woman, my plan is intentional. I strip her of the most basic necessities. Food, clothing, shelter. Though her needs are contrived by me, the cumulative effects of my training will not be in vain.
~ Jane Henry
the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
Tell me where you're taking me." "I take you nowhere, Princess," he called back. "It's you who follows me.
~ Janet Lee Carey
For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed.
~ Janette Sadik-Khan
Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.
~ Janice Galloway
It's going to sound so cliché, but you've got to stop trying to fix everything." She put a hand up. "I know, I know—this coming from the fix-it queen. But you were never meant to hold all things together. Only God can do that.
~ Janice Thompson
I want to go swimming," the child said. She waited for opposition, but none came. So she took off her clothes, slowly and nervously. She glanced at her grandmother -- you can't depend on people who just let things happen. She put her legs in the water. "It's cold," she said. "Of course it's cold," the old woman said, her thoughts somewhere else. "What did you expect?
~ Jansson, Tove
My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don't get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk.
~ Jarod Kintz
The British were afraid. They knew they didn't have the money, the people, or the weaponry to sustain a long fight against the Nazis. They needed America to join the war. Their survival as a nation depended on it.
~ Jason Fagone
Putting it simply, my brother had a hotline to Heaven. When he dropped a contact lens on the bathroom floor, instead of crawling on hands and knees, anxious to find it, he just closed his eyes, prayed for a minute, then looked down and it would be there. Nothing was his battle. Any struggle, no matter the size, belonged to his Friend. Sinclair knew the power of Yahushua.
~ Jason Wilson
I don't know how to drive a car.
~ Javier Bardem
Una pareja que depende y vive de sus obstáculos es una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya".
~ Javier Marías
Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji ?e se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre toga ne rasture te iste, tako zamorne i otegnute prepreke, koje ?e me?utim morati da napajaju i neguju i da nastoje da ve?no potraju ako ih je ve? sustigao trenutak kada ne mogu bez ti i ja, ili jedno bez drugog.
~ Javier Marías
No hay nada mejor que creer que se ha perdido la voluntad, que está uno a merced del oleaje y del vaivén, que puede mecerse y abandonarse; o sí, todavía es mejor creer que la voluntad se ha entregado a otro, a quien ahora corresponderá decidir qué va a pasar.
~ Javier Marías
Una pareja, pensé, que depende y vive de sus obstáculos: una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya, si es que no la deshacen antes esos mismos obstáculos tan fatigosos y prolongados, que sin embargo tendrán que alimentar y cuidar y procurar hacer eternos, si ya les ha alcanzado el momento de no poder pasarse sin ti y sin mí, o sin el uno el otro.
~ Javier Marías