Quotes About Interdependence

But we all like to feel needed. Then stop it. Like to feel unneeded instead—for the greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

Es muy romántico decir que ahora que tu persona especial ha entrado a tu vida, te sientes completo. Pero el propósito de una relación no es tener a otra persona que te complete, sino tener a alguien con quien puedas compartir lo completo que tú estás.

began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting.

Relationships were never equivalent: that was why it was so hard to find permanent ones. When two people depended on each other, they each had their own reasons. Sometimes the reasons balanced each other out temporarily, and the two of you were suspended gently in air. Then inevitably, one side came crashing down.

Some problems can only be resolved by network analysis.

the secret of our success as a species 'resides . . . in the collective brains of our communities

Hemos olvidado profundamente en todas partes que el Pago Monetario no es la única relación entre seres humanos... No es el único nexo del hombre con el hombre' —Thomas Carlyle

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

because I learned that it's okay to accept some help every now and then .

Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? Always together, forever apart.

Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn't completely true. Yeah, you could decide what to have for breakfast and what to wear and all those little things, but as soon as you stepped out into the world, you were pretty much at the mercy of everyone else around you, and all you could do was hope that if they were having a bad day, they wouldn't decide to take it out on you.

Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

What happens to you happens to me. We stay together.

Lifemates are bound together for all eternity. One cannot exist without the other. We balance one another. You are the light to my darkness. We must share one another often.

And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself with them quite fearlessly and yet — when the props are kicked away — remain leaning, as it were, on empty air. Like levitation.

It also troubled him when he contemplated how such a partnership must, by its very nature, reduce the individuality of those involved.