Quotes About Interdependence

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

Self-love is born out of love of another.

You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Were not there you, I'd be not too.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, we are caught in a "network of mutuality," and that means our collective fate is intertwined. We will thrive or fail together.

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you'll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult. If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it.

Proteins can't exist without DNA and DNA has no purpose without proteins. Are we to assume, then, that they arose simultaneously with the purpose of supporting each other? If so: wow. And

Proteins can't exist without DNA, and DNA has no purpose without proteins. Are we to assume then that they arose simultaneously with the purpose of supporting each other? If so: wow.

The universal tree of life on Earth might actually be a forest.

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

In the teams you quickly learn that you have to depend on your teammates to get their job done, while you concentrate on your own part of the mission.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.