Quotes About Dependence

Prayer serves as a reminder, that you are not God

To trust God means to depend upon God This is the reason children are content. They know, deep down, they are taken care of. To lose this feeling is the great tragedy of life. To find it again, the greatest recovery.

Children born to wise parents are blessed, for they know they are in good hands. This same feeling can exist for the adult who learns to see God as parent and then comes to depend on Him completely.

Throughout the New Testament, "faith" means active trust and reliance.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

The "dead of winter" ----- how much more dead it would be each year without the birds!

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

For example, I don't have a license to drive; thus, my driver drives; however, I sit next to the driving seat, watching all the surroundings during the journey. Similarly, I am on Social Media with admins.

I can't use swords, you bastard! I don't know how to navigate a ship! And I can't cook! Or lie! And I'm pretty sure I can't live without being helped!" -Monkey D. Luffy

I'm afraid, she thought. When there's someone to cling to, I'll cling. And I'll grow weak again, like roses unable to stand free, once trained to a trellis.

Do you need me? Always, but not immediately.

What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn't live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.

That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don't do as I say I'll ruin you.

When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

e io, malgrado tutti i miei cambiamenti, seguitavo a esserle subalterna. Di quella subalternità sentii che non sarei mai riuscita a liberarmi e questo mi sembrò insopportabile. Desiderai – e non riuscii a tenere a bada il desiderio – che il cardiologo si fosse sbagliato, che Armando avesse ragione, che lei fosse davvero malata e morisse.

because who am I if you aren't great?

Per favore, per favore, non mi lasciare adesso, se no cado giù.

when you don't know how to keep a man you lose everything, (…)

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

É tão fácil — pensei — morrer precisamente na vida das pessoas sem as quais não podemos viver?

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

Please don't leave me all alone." Was that what I, too was afraid of? And maybe not just me, but everyone?

A literature major whom I knew slightly was walking her lame boyfriend around on a leash.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.