Quotes About Interdependence

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.

Relative truths are the day-to-day things and thoughts we can easily discuss, teach, sell, and conceptualise. … Each one depends on a vast multitude of other … relative truths for its existence – an existence which is, of course, conceptual.

F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.

Build a tangled bank.

As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

Mediante el intercambio voluntario, las personas benefician a otras beneficiándose a sí mismas; como él decía: «No esperamos conseguir nuestra cena por la benevolencia del carnicero, el cervecero o el panadero, sino porque ellos velan por sus propios intereses. No apelamos a su humanidad, sino a su amor propio».

Those plants are so fragile, they had to domesticate humans just to take endless care of them!

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Love turns one person into two; and two into one.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.