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Quotes About Interdependence

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
~ Umberto Eco
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.
~ Clifford Cohen
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
~ Khalil Gibran
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.
~ Frederick Buechner
Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.
~ Amit Kalantri
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.
~ Gregory Bateson
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
~ Pythagoras
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
~ C.S. Lewis
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.
~ Sydney Smith
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
~ Sydney Smith
The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without us, but we can't get along without them.
~ Sylvia A. Earle
What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?
~ Sylvia Engdahl
You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
~ T.A. Barron
Everything is connected to everything else.
~ T.A. Barron
Quando a mulher se relaciona bem consigo mesma e tem um nível elevado de autoestima, pode então compartilhar facilmente sua vida com outra pessoa.
~ T.D. Jakes
Cada ser y cada cosa del universo tan solo existen en función de su coexistencia con los otros seres y con las otras cosas. La independencia de un ser o una cosa es el resultado de la interdependencia de todos los seres y de todas las cosas.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Roots are branches in the earth. Branches are roots in the air.
~ Tagore
Everything in the universe is connected Everything is osmosis You cannot separate any part from the whole Interdependence rules the cosmic order.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.
~ Taitetsu Unno