Quotes About Interdependence

People and land, they're the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.

La gente y la tierra son lo mismo - solia decir su padre- si desatiendes una de las dos, la otra acaba pagando las consecuencias

The truth is that the institution flourishes only when the people who comprise it flourish. And if the people are sick, the institution will be sick." He squeezed her hand. "If there's anything I could teach you, I'd teach you that.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Todos sin excepción tenemos nuestros seres respirables. Si nos faltan, nos falta el aire y nos ahogamos.

There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.

But you must have a ladys maid. Don't I have Marius?

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.

No dia em que nós não lhes formos mais convenientes, que nos anulem, mas até então ajudem-nos a caminhar.

Alone is overrated," he said simply.

But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

you don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

But she wasn't an I. She was a we.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.

They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.

Spoon goes to bowl's house; bowl never goes to spoon's house. --Haitian proverb

Now see," she says: "each stands only by help of the other. One by itself cannot stand. Therefore the ji is like mankind. Without help one person cannot live in this world; but by getting help and giving help everybody can live. If nobody helped anybody, all people would fall down and die.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned