Quotes About Interdependence

I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on, "an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".

Lovers are food for each other to sustain their lives

We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

One did not fully exist without the other.

You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

Where in the world would a star be without the love of the sky?

be applied successfully only with the aid of the other.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.

Governments are wasting billions of dollars on attempting to predict events that are produced by interdependent systems and are therefore not statistically understandable at the individual level.

In a system, the sacrifices of some units—fragile units, that is, or people—are often necessary for the well-being of other units or the whole.

Black Swan effects are necessarily increasing, as a result of complexity, interdependence between parts, globalization, and the beastly thing called "efficiency" that makes people now sail too close to the wind.

Thou shalt not become antifragile at the expense of others.

Without Massasoit's help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the very end. For his part, Massasoit realized almost from the start that his own fortunes were linked to those of the English.

The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

and I realize that this is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.

The two of them against each other. The two of them against the world. Everything in their lives was now defined by that binary. If they had to die today in order to live, it would somehow be wrong if they didn't do it together.

Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two tilled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn't exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.

I am nothing without Risa.

people need me. I fill them. if they can't see me for awhile the get desperate, they get sick. but if I see them too often I get sick. it's hard to feed without getting fed.