Quotes About Interdependence

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Domesticated species don't command our respect the way their wild cousins often do. Evolution may reward interdependence, but our thinking selves continue to prize self-reliance.

Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal—that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone—is simply wrong.

Through nature, through the evolutionary continuum, and ecological relatedness and interdependence of all things, we are as much a part of the wolf as the wolf is a part of us. And as we destroy or demean nature, wolves, or any creature, great or small, we do no less to ourselves.

Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.

Esta sentencia me parece desacertada, tanto más, cuanto que ningún provecho ni ventaja se alcanza sin el perjuicio de los demás.

Biz her ÅŸeyde birbirimizin yar?s? idik: ÅŸimdi ben onun pay?n? çalar gibi oluyorum.

It's so easy to refuse to help others when you feel they were irresponsible. It's tempting to pass judgment and think you've done better for yourself on your own. But don't be so arrogant to think you got where you are by your own actions. Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.

Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.

Every relationship we have —with Mom, with Dad, with brothers, with sisters, with friends —is unique because we dream a small dream together. Every relationship becomes a living being made by two dreamers.

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.

Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we've stopped seeing it and hearing it.

And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.

Ama güçlüler güçsüzleri incitemeyecek kadar güçsüz olunca, güçsüzler çekip gidecek kadar güçlü olmak zorundayd?lar

Mas era precisamente o fraco quem devia saber ser forte e partir quando o forte se encontrava demasiado fraco para poder sequer magoar o fraco.

Bir insan?n bütün deÄŸeri, kendini aÅŸabilme, kendi d???nda olma, baÅŸkas?nda ve baÅŸkas? ile var olabilme yeteneÄŸinde yat?yor.

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - someone who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, someone in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap . .

These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

A narcissism shared by two.

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.