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Quotes About Interdependence

LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships.
~ Thomas Mann
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
~ Thomas Merton
As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us.
~ Thomas Merton
But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
~ Thomas Merton
we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
~ Thomas Merton
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the mining of life by ourselfs alone- we find it with another
~ Thomas Merton
God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body. I do not wash my feet to make them more beautiful than my face.
~ Thomas Merton
Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.
~ Thomas Sowell
In the brain's world, better to have a negative bond than the existential death of no bond at all. And
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
We will prepare ourselves for love by opening our hearts to those in our lives at a whole new level, exploring and expanding our capacity for healthy interdependence
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
Human beings are not meant to live in isolation. We are here to have relationships.
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
Cities remind us that the desire to escape from the problems of other people by fleeing to a suburb, small town, or a monastery, for that matter, is an unholy thing, and ultimately self-defeating. We can no more escape from other people than we can escape from ourselves.
~ Kathleen Norris
No matter how big and strong you are, other people can help you if you let them.
~ Kathryn Shay
Marriage is like vitamins we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements.
~ Kathy Mohnke
No game is an island.
~ Katie Salen
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
We are the people we interact with. Our paychecks, our moods, the health of our hearts, and the size of our bellies—all of these things are determined by whom we choose to interact with and how.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
We have a tendency to romanticize independence and see autonomy as a virtue. In my experience, such a view is a career killer. Autonomy is a life vest made out of sand. Independent people who do not have the skills to think and act interdependently may still be good individual producers, but they won't be seen as good leaders or team players.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —Margaret Wheatley
~ Keith Ferrazzi
What has become clear is that we're not just connected to others. We are the very product of the people and networks to which we are connected.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —MARGARET WHEATLEY
~ Keith Ferrazzi
We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. —the Dalai Lama
~ Keith Ferrazzi
His understanding of the DNA code in all bands is that sooner or later the two principals will turn on each other because one of them will be driven crazy by the knowledge that to be at their best they need to perform with the other person and therefore they need that other person to be successful, or even to be heard. It makes you hate that person.
~ Keith Richards