Quotes About Dependence

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

This is stability at the cost of dependence ? because the primary cause of 'voluntary servitude', i.e. submission to power, even if it's not required – according to Étienne de la Boétie – is simply a habit.5

Invertir sentimientos profundos en la relación y jurar fidelidad implica correr un enorme riesgo: eso lo convierte a usted en alguien dependiente de su pareja (aunque señalemos que la dependencia —que rápidamente ha cobrado un matiz peyorativo— es la base de la responsabilidad moral hacia el Otro, tanto para Lögstrup como para Levinas).

She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35

I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.

Without the Lord, the disciple no longer knows who he is.

The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord's departure.

A man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing.

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.

The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, lets the texter/ former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Our "ego" or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated, and ever vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

What dangers are posed by those touchingly insecure men who, unsure of their own powers of attraction, need to keep finding out whether they are acceptable to others.

Children may end up being the unexpected teachers of people many times their age, to whom they offer—through their exhaustive dependence, egoism, and vulnerability—an advanced education in a wholly new sort of love, one in which reciprocation is never jealously demanded or fractiously regretted and in which the true goal is nothing less than the transcendence of oneself for the sake of another. The

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

Think about it. We are born into a relationship. You are born in the womb, deeply connected to and dependent on your mother. You eat what she eats. You hear what she hears. That need for connection doesn't change, but it can end up looking like a lot of different things. What gives consistency to people is a deep sense of worth—a feeling of being loved as we are loved by God.

You're my only remaining link to the world

I trust you with my life," Skulduggery said. "Just not necessarily my car.

We forget that nothing happens in life independently of other things.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.