Quotes About Interdependence

Everyone needs help from everyone.

The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee, or in his soul.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

As the husband is, the wife is.

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

America is turning inward, and that's making the whole world a more dangerous place.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.

We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.