Quotes About Interdependence

May this severing not cut us apart, but bind us together.

an enmeshed family can maintain an illusion of love and stability as long as no one attempts to separate and as long as everyone follows the family rules.

Why would men want to do without women? We adore women." "Because they serve you," she grumbled. "No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.

The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic—it is all three at the same time.

Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

But you're not worried anymore?" "Only in the way everyone worries when you realize someone else's well-being is necessary to your own.

It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.

balance our fundamental urge for connection with the urge to experience our own agency.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

When a person gave less, he required less in return.

Sos más en mí que yo de mí. Te existo, péndulo del aire.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. This seems so clearly the case with grief, but it can be so only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. One may want to, or manage to for a while, but despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

A threefold cord is not easily broken.

The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They

Infantile love follows the principle 'I love because I am loved.' "Mature love follows the principle 'I am loved because I love.' "Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' "Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his. One. Crown.

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

The U.S. has always been an indispensable ally.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.