Quotes About Interdependence

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Each partner, in fact, shares in the honor and dishonor of the other.

It is certain that a man who has no need of anyone has many friends: in my own experience I have found this to be very true.

Our human brains—in fact, most mammals' brains—are built for co-regulation.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

Astonishingly, we are saved not by a special apparatus known as religion, but by the quality of our everyday relations with one another.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course of his own existence.

At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.

Whenever we are in the box, we have a need that is met by others' poor behavior. And so our boxes encourage more poor behavior in others, even if that behavior makes our lives more difficult.

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

With a country club membership you pay others to do the work for you. With church membership, everyone has a role or function. That is why some are hands, feet, ears, or eyes. We are all different, but we are necessary parts of the whole.

I am a person. You are a person. Without you I am not a person, for only through you is language made possible and only through language is thought made possible, and only through thought is humanness made possible. You have made me important. Therefore, I am important and you are important. If I devalue you, I devalue myself. This is the rationale of the position I'M OK – YOU'RE OK.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

It was my mother's dream to have a few houses next door to each other, where they could live in one, and my brother and I could live in the others, where we are close but also had independence.

I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

Porque he aprendido, que de vez en cuando, es bueno aceptar la ayuda de alguien.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.