Quotes About Interdependence

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate.

her mezhep ve kült diÄŸerleri üzerinde ahlaki bir denetimdir: Rekabet ticarette olduÄŸu kadar dinde de yararl?d?r.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's-- hate ....

are connected by relationships and place and time; we are connected by shared experience. But in the end we are each our own person and ultimately alone.

our cooperation extends all around the globe. The next time you buy something—shoes, a computer, a bunch of bananas—look at where it was made. For most of us, it is impossible to survive without the help of thousands of strangers all over the world. We have never met these people, but they are enmeshed with us in globally extended networks

EÅŸit olanlar?n aras?ndakinin d???nda gerçek bir kar??l?kl?l?k olamayaca??ndan, bask? ve eÅŸitsizlik uzun vadede bir tür kendini engellemedir de.

The interwovenness of our lives is the source of our solidarity. But it also lies at the root of our mutual harm.

We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

Granny Weatherwax made a great play of her independence and self-reliance. But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant at . People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

Sometimes, she thought, you've got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you've got to admit you can't do it all by yourself.

Now, I'm not saying it takes a village to raise a kid." She lowered her gaze back to the baby in her arms. "But it sure does help to have a grandma.

Atalar?m?zla ba??m?z olmazsa, hiçbir ÅŸeyle ve hiç kimseyle ba?? olmayan, geliÅŸigüzel sal?nan, yapayaln?z toz zerreleri oluruz.

When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.

We need to look closely at our relationships to see whether they are based primarily on mutual need or on mutual happiness.

Dear master, I think it would be better for each of us to watch ourself. To look after oneself means to look after both of us. That way I am sure we will avoid any accidents and will earn enough to eat.' " The Buddha said: "The child spoke correctly.

The most important matter for a practitioner is to be able to break through the veil of the material plane in order to enter the ultimate dimension and see the interconnection between us and all other phenomena in the world around us.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not.

The one contains the many and the many contains the one. Without the one, there cannot be the many. Without the many, there cannot be the one.

The biggest lever for change is not a change merely in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way people see and regard their connections and obligations to others.

If there is one truism about life, surely it is that we are inextricably and inescapably together.