Quotes About Dependence

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

if there's one concern that comes up again and again, it's 'Don't trust the technology – it may not be your friend.

Nomad horsemen from central Asia, who depended on the 'delicate grassland ecology

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You. (Psalm 39:7)

When we pack too well, we are telling the world that it isn't good enough on its own, that it makes us uncomfortable and scared. We don't know if we can depend on anything or anyone, and we've decided it's better not to take the chance. —Stefany Anne Goldberg, "You Can Take It with You" (2012)

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Where there is 'freedom from' without corresponding interrelationship, there is the anxiety of the defiant and isolated individual. Where there is dependence without freedom, there is the anxiety of the clinging person who cannot live outside a symbiosis.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom.

God won't force His assistance on us. We must ask for His help. Why? Why should we pray when God already knows everything? He knows what we need before we ask. So why ask? God insists that we ask because He wants us to learn to depend on Him and give Him the credit for intervening in our lives. He knows that we won't give Him the credit unless we ask.

The further removed we are from the land, the greater our insecurity.

God is always in control; he is able to bring his people back to him.

Remember what we learned earlier in this book: effective prayer occurs when you talk to God and listen to what God is saying to you. The main thing in your life is that you meet with God the first thing every day. When you pray, it demonstrates that you depend on God in your life. When you do not pray, it demonstrates that you are depending upon yourself. God wants to use prayer to influence your life.

I imagined myself in some way defined by my relation to another creature.

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. In

She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and that he contained within himself the makings of a downpour and possibly even a monsoon.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

Kate, Lucern interrupted. What? she asked warily. I do not need blood. He tugged her off balance and into his lap. All I need is you.

Trust is the ultimate strength.

For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away. (translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

I wanted you to do it all for me. I wanted everything to be all easy and simple.... So I tried to pretend that it was all your fault... because I was scared, and I didn't want to have to do anything myself— But I wanted to do it for you, Mr. Murry said. That's what every parent wants.