Quotes About Dependence

And Ronan was making me think, yes, and he was making me think about thinking (Hegel would be pleased), but my task as his myth writer was still to understand my son as a person and a being who was independent of me and yet dependent on my actions, my attention, my love.

There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone.

Holly... Je hebt me wederom gered.' … 'Natuurlijk heb ik je gered,' zei ze. 'Ik kan toch niet zonder je?

Working within our sphere of control, we are naturally free, independent, and strong. Beyond that sphere, we are weak, limited, and dependent.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142

You go through life looking for a teacher and then when you find him, you become so dependent on him that you grow to hate him. Or else you wait for him to show his weakness and then you despise him for being human.

You're afraid he'll leave you and you'll fall apart. You don't know that you can get along without him and you're afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You'll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.

The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

J'ai besoin de ton regard, qui m'admire et me caresse; j'ai besoin de tes conseils, qui me soutiennent et me rassurent; et j'ai besoin de ton épaule, pour y reposer ma tête la nuit

I'm a real bastard without him," Jace apologized, and Nick gulped some water and nodded. "Yeah, I hear that. Why?" Jace looked at him in outrage because the question was… was self-explanatory. "Because! Because he's… he's Quent!

I can't need you, boy. What happens when you leave?

broken. "Please, God. Let him live." He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.

You can't leave me," he whispered. "It's just that simple. No Deacon, no Crick. I'm not strong like Jeff. I can't just keep going for years and make everybody laugh and not take anything good for myself. I need you.

È come se… non vedessi più le cose a colori, sai? Guardo qualcosa e penso di sapere com'è, e poi penso a come sembrerebbe il mondo senza Deacon, e tutto diventa bianco e nero.

It takes a woman to get a job done right. Some men can't even die properly without the help of a woman.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

I'll catch you if you fall

Gli ho chiesto come andava con Laurie; lui ha detto "Ci facciamo del male in ogni modo possibile, e non appena uno dei due accenna ad andarsene l'altro gli corre dietro come un povero masochista, non c'è verso che la cosa si risolva.

The success of every company depends on its employees. You might think that is the best kept secret in the economy, but it really is no secret. Everybody will tell you that, but hardly anyone understands it. It is especially the people looking for work who don't understand. If they did the world of labor would be a different place.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends—the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.