Quotes About Interdependence

What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.

Liberty clutched him tightly. 'You played a part in my destiny. And maybe I played a part in yours.' That was how things worked, she was beginning to realize. Destiny wasn't something you accomplished by yourself.

Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin, neither of which can be understood properly without taking account of the other.

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.

Ecology teaches us "that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone," wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, "but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.

Any who live, stand alone in one place, together.

Woman without her man has no reason for living. With a colon and a comma, the writer would get a different reaction: Woman: without her, man has no reason for living.

We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.

While the mainstream Western mind visualizes the good and the evil as two opposite forces, each attempting to annihilate the other, the Taoists envision them as interdependent and complementary. The yin-yang is the primordial symbol for creative tension, without which life and growth are not possible, This understanding that the opposites are complementary is essential to Zen's gentle attitude toward life.

A]ll beings in the universe are interdependent. Thus, the love of God means the love of All There Is. The one who loves God is the one who adopts a loving attitude to all things in life, for all are intimately connected and do not exist apart from one another. Therefore, the second greatest commandment is simply a derivative of the first one. Our love for others is due to our recognition that each one of them is also an integral part of God, inseparable from Ultimate Reality.

Who we are is how we are in relation to others

When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

Independence is a fine thing. But having people in your life who love you and need you is a hell of a lot better.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.

It was the everyday people who were our country's true lifeblood. If they should fail, so would we all.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, "slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and factors within which the Industrial Revolution, as we know it, emerged. Within this system of interdependence, it would make as much or as little sense to draw a

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

Às vezes, conhecemos pessoas com as quais estabelecemos uma relação tão simbiótica que é como se fôssemos uma pessoa só, com uma só mente, um só destino