Quotes About Dependence

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.

My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority. (Communists, Fascists and Nazis say this in a cliché, "The individual is nothing.") Government is Authority, controlling the masses and responsible for their welfare. Therefore, the stronger the Government, the better for the masses. Liberty

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

Svetlana did not know how to be alone. Alone, she felt totally exposed. She thought she would be safe if only she could entwine her life in another, but then, once she had achieved this, she would feel suffocated, a pattern that would take her decades to break, if she ever succeeded.

I need them and they need me to need them

Continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.' The words are not those of a conservative, but of Franklin Roosevelt.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' -- Roy Blount Jr.

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.

Sad is the man who has no place to put his faith other than in himself.

If you are willing to realize that you cannot create your own virtues or changes; if you are willing to feel the pain of emptiness, helplessness, and inadequacy; if you are willing to wait, knowing that of yourself you can do nothing – then you will be facing Reality correctly.

The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds—The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs,But, oh, the little cargo boats that sail the wet seas roun',They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up and down!

Ye need her as she needs ye....and Inuyasha...DO NOT FORGET WHERE YE BURIED ME!

The downside is that by recognizing our total dependence on powers beyond ourselves, we can be filled with an overwhelming sense of religious obligation and guilt at not fulfilling it. One way out of this sense of inadequacy is to become an atheist. If everything happens automatically and unconsciously, if there is no purpose or providence in the world, then there is nothing to feel grateful for. But this liberation comes at a high price. Being ungrateful is often accompanied by unhappiness.

appropriate for her to do so, considering he was

qué sucedería si eligiéramos permanecer en la presencia de Dios y hablar con él con respecto a nuestro cansancio, reconociéndolo de la manera en que lo haría un niño frente a su padre que se preocupa y puede ayudarlo?

There are certain people who if they are absent life becomes hard to bear.

The west and southwest of Ireland bore the brunt of the famine. Those areas, including Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Galway, Clare, and Cork, were the poorest regions of the island, and the most dependent on subsistence farming. Not coincidentally, these were also the areas that Catholic Irish had been sent to during the Protestant plantation.