Quotes About Interdependence

You don't get it she said ''Don't get what? ''We are one ''We are one? Tengo asked with a shock. ''We wrote the book together Tengo felt the pressure of Fuka-Eri's fingers against his palm. ... ''That's true. We wrote Air Crysalis together. And when we are eaten by the tiger, we'll be eaten together.

Someday you'll find the right person, and you'll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That's what I think. So don't settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount

we can't survive on our own.

En este mundo hay cosas que sólo puedes hacer sola y cosas que sólo puedes hacer con otra persona. Es importante ir combinando las unas con las otras.

Our perceptions are shaped not only by what we can do by ourselves but by what we believe we can do with others' help

We can only make sense of ourselves in relation to someone or something. To be a person, we must be recognized as a person.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

I just want the opportunity to transcend my personal boundaries and the only way you can do that is by latching on to other people's coat-tails.

Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Ve? su oboje bili navikli me?usobno podijeliti svaku misao, svaku novu ideju i doživljaj. Bez tog odjeka, bez reakcije onog drugoga, ništa kao da nije imalo smisla. Ve? su stvorili odnos u kojem su se osje?ali dobro, ve? su postali ovisni jedno o drugome, ogledali se jedno u drugome.

Je ne peux pas accepter de regarder le ciel sans la terre, ni la terre sans le ciel.

Toute chose étant par nature impermanente, fluide et interdépendante, notre mode de pensée et nos actions modifient inévitablement l'avenir.

The Dalai Lama has said: In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. We must therefore develop a sense of universal responsibility . . . It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

The heart, the life that is within you, is born in companionship with the environment. Your heart is the life of the great universe. Our own hearts are the womb from which everything originates...

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

If I was not in touch with my needs, then how could anyone else meet them?

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy.

This awesome world isn't just a spectator sport. It's symbiotic; it influences us, and we influence it." from A Walk Around the Block (Harper One)