Quotes About Interdependence

Human animal is considered the most valuable animal to enforce/ensure each others growth

Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: "I am not enough." A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that "I can't feel good if you don't feel good.

Without a tapestry of caring, civilization would collapse into a chaotic every-man-for-himself battlefield.

La natura rifiutandosi clamorosamente di servire all'uomo, avendo altri fini, l'uomo sempre più sarà asservito all'uomo.

Nuestra identidad depende de los vínculos que creamos, sea con seres humanos o con mascotas. Somos con quienes nos relacionamos»

In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her "parachute -- and the other accepts this role -- both will fall to the ground.

Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

He had a sense, through that spring, that his life would be so much better for her presence. He wasn't wrong, but it was equally a truth that the purpose and direction of her life was not to make his better, and in time he even came to understand that.

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.

It takes an awful lot of people, working together at an awful lot of jobs, to keep a civilization running.

the mutually depending, trusting and loving association between man and animal.

It is you that is strong. But even strong people need a arm to lean on every now and then.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.

In your relationships you sacrificed your autonomy to gain security and wound up with neither.")

Solitude can be defined as learning that we are not alone when we are alone. When we have achieved the stature of solitude, namely achieving a conscious relationship with ourselves, then we are freer to share ourselves with others, freer to receive their gifts in return and not be infantilized by the mutual archaic agenda of childhood, the agenda that covertly uses the other to provide for us.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

At root what is, is no longer THINGS but what happens BETWEEN things, these are the terms of the reality contemporary to us – and the terms of what we are. Olson (1983)

The quality of a good life depends in large measure on how a man reacts to his natural environment, and we cannot destroy one without diminishing the other.

Like we were just jagged puzzle pieces that made no sense alone but together we fit perfectly. That's what life is supposed to be like for normal people right? You find that other piece that matches yours that completes yours. And you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smooth, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection you make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing about the small angles that don't.

Whether or not he wanted me the same way I wanted him, we were in this together—that was what Robinson had said. It had never occurred to me before what a complicated word together was.

if you die, we die.

Teamwork. It's what makes the world go 'round." "Actually," says Pierce, popping his head up over an astronomy book, "what makes Earth go 'round is conservation of angular momentum.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.