Quotes About Interdependence

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Love is the use one makes of another.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

No matter how much love is there, these aren't two people who are actually good for each other. They don't help each other grow. They stifle each other's growth.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Need. That's what makes a village. That's what we are now, and what holds us together is need. I won't help you if you don't help me. That is the social contract." I couldn't really process what she was saying.

Need. That's what makes a village. That's what we are now, and what holds us together is need. I won't help you if you don't help me. That is the social contract.

God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. One is an extension of the other. It's impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. The branch isn't connected only at the moment of bearing fruit. The gardener doesn't keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine. No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine. Separation means certain death.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

Human beings are like some plants. If we pause a few seconds in our journey, we begin setting down roots, tendrils that entangle other people as we ourselves are entangled.

his wagon to a star. He still thinks he's the star. And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon…at least some of the time." Oh!

I am not a vine, to twist my life and twine about a strong column like yourself. Rather we have been as two strong trees that grew side by side, but must eventually lean apart from one another. You would not have me in your shade, would you, stunted and misshapen?

The lesson, my son, is that we alone, no matter how skilled or smart or how rich, are but spokes and cannot move the wheel alone, only together can we do that.

Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Codependency is about normal behaviors taken too far. It's about crossing lines.