Quotes About Interdependence

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

Maybe we're supposed to save each other.

We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

But a woman should not look after a man, because she must look after children, and a man should not be a child.

Se trata de un hecho lo suficientemente importante como para repetirlo: la gente organiza su cabeza conversando. Y si no tienen a nadie para contarle su historia, pierden la cabeza. Son como personas que van acumulando objetos de forma compulsiva y no pueden deshacerse de nada ellas solas. Se requiere el aporte de la comunidad para mantener la integridad de la psique individual o, dicho de otra forma, es necesario todo un pueblo para organizar una sola cabeza.

People exist among other people and not as purely individual minds. An individual does not have to be that well put together if he or she can remain at least minimally acceptable in behavior to others. Simply put: We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

It much better for any relationship when both partners are strong.

You got to ask yourself what's more important-- to try to do everything your own way and lose it all, or to ask for help so you can get what you need, when you need it. Always remember, you not here in this world alone. You got friends.

No viven juntás las gentes sin más ni más y porque sí; esa cohesion a priori sólo existe en la familia. Los grupos que integran un Estado viven juntos para algo: son una comunidad de propósitos, de anhelos, de grandes utilidades. No conviven por estar juntos, sino para hacer juntos algo.

Quisiéramos hallar aquel cuya vida se fundiese íntegramente, se interpenetrase con la nuestra. Para ello hacemos los más varios intentos. Uno es la amistad. Pero el supremo entre ellos es lo que llamamos amor. El auténtico amor no es sino el intento de canjear dos soledades.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Kahlil Gibran's wise advice: "Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

I've read Khalil Gibran and taken his advice to heart," McGill said. "'Let there be spaces in your togetherness?'" "Exactly.

All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.

Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community.

Without ShadowClan, there can be no ThunderClan, no WindClan, no RiverClan, no SkyClan. Five Clans or none.

You know: "dogs and cats living together Ã¢â'¬Â¦ mass hysteria!

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved.

Un ser humano es más que la suma de átomos, miembros, órganos y humores de que consta; una familia es más que el esposo, la esposa y el hijo. Una amistad es más que dos hombres; y un pueblo es más que aquello que puede expresarse por el resultado de un censo de población o por una suma de votos políticos