Quotes About Interdependence

They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

The self does not develop independently from its social surroundings.

In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.

A win for the American economy is a win for the Japanese economy.

Right here" is the reality of interdependent origination, the reality in which everything, including human beings, exists within the vast network of causes and conditions.

Man patterns the Earth, the Earth patterns the Heavens, the Heavens pattern the Dao, the pattern of the Dao is natural.

Each existence depends on something else... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Without air, we cannot breathe.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Dependence is a two-sided sword…….. it kills the person on either side of it!!!!

It had taken time for him to realize that no one was truly self-sufficient, and that those who thought they were merely took refuge in a form of weakness, the weakness of being unable to ask for help and guidance and thus find greater strength in reliance on close friends and comrades.

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

You know,just because you can deal with bullshit on your own doesn't mean you should." - Derek Fitzpatrick

Man was formed for society.

None shall part us from each other,One in life and death are we:All in all to one another—I to thee and thou to me!Thou the tree and I the flower—Thou the idol; I the throng—Thou the day and I the hour—Thou the singer; I the song!

I've decided that mixing is a key term. It's better than suggestion, which is one-sided. It explains what people rarely talk about, because we define ourselves as isolated, closed bodies who bump up against each other but stay shut. Descartes was wrong. It isn't: I think, there I am. It's: I am because you are. That's Hegel - well, the short version.

The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical reality. The I and the you are not as neatly separated as the culture likes to believe.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.