Quotes About Interdependence

Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.' 

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well.

That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another

That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.

You are here so I can teach you something. That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy.

You need nature more than she needs you. It is not an equal relationship. Serve her well and she will look after you. Abuse her and everyone loses.

The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis—embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary

Thumbs understand the fingers better than the fingers understand the thumb. Sometimes the fingers feel sorry the thumb is not a finger. The thumb is needed more often than any of the fingers. Look close at any thumb and you see it is not proud. Each finger has two knuckles, a thumb only one knuckle, and they need each other.

Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.

The spirituality of the Goddess is rooted in two fundamental principles: gratitude and sharing. We give thanks to the earth for the gift of life. As we recognize our interdependence and interconnection in the web of life, we are moved to share what has been given to us with others.

Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is.

My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.

Možeš posje?i drvo, ali ne možeš uništiti ono iz ?ega je izraslo i sav život koji je iz njega potekao.

I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, a barrier which Buddhism calls the attachment to the false view of self. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own.