Quotes About Interdependence

No one succeeds alone. No one.

Everyone has one person who either means the most to them or was the first to influence, train, or manage them. No one succeeds alone. No one.

No one is self-made.

We look to our friends or family members or spouses to fulfill our wants. And there's something functionally dysfunctional about such a dependency.

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.

us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.

People clustered in twos or threes or fours, I have come to believe, both constitute creatures in and of themselves and, together as tandems or triunes or packs, form another sort of myriad-minded creature whose actions are far from predictable.

Women, on the other hand, needed men like a fish needed a chariot.

It's much better to love on your own than not love as a group.

Family must rely upon family, since governments do not comprehend families.

Connectedness regulates and rewards us.

The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. I

You're not meant to raise children isolated and alone.

Isolated and disconnected, we are vulnerable. In community, we can protect one another, cooperatively hunt and gather, share with the dependents of our family, our clan. Relational glue keeps our species alive, and love is relational superglue

A person's capacity to connect, to be regulating and regulated, to reward and be rewarded, is the glue that keeps families and communities together.

Think of the diversity within a small multifamily, multigenerational clan. Children growing up had numerous adults and older children who could model, teach, nurture, discipline, and care for them. Each person in the clan had a unique set of strengths—the right person at the right time. No single person was expected to provide all of the emotional, social, physical, or cognitive needs of the developing child.

The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Darwinian focus on the fitness of the individual de-emphasizes the significance of communal cooperation in evolution.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.

It doesn't matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will forever remain stuck in the Stone Age.

Together, they became part of the space between things.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.