Quotes About Interdependence

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

And I don't think you're helpless. But it's okay to let someone help you once in a while.

To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.

Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing, enfolding, and supporting we had needed just to stumble about through our days!

you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.

The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.

In their universe, nobody shuts you down for being different and wanting the moon. In ours, you live on a tether: to family, parents if you're lucky, older people raising you if less so, that you yourself will end up looking after by and by.

As I planted the beans, Turtle followed me down the row digging each one up after I planted it and putting it back in the jar. "Good girl," I said. I could see a whole new era arriving in Turtle's and my life.

It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.

Our question is no longer how to exploit the natural world for human comfort and gain, but how we can cooperate with one another to ensure we will someday have a fitting, not a dominating, place in it.

the sine qua non of a stable human society, they had to understand that this was not possible except in the hands of fully mature people, people, in the modern idiom, who had "gotten over themselves.

What seems likely to me is that the causality works both ways: happy people attract other to them, and being with others makes people happy.

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. They're not coming from the paradigm of interdependence necessary to succeed in marriage, family, or organizational reality.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.