Quotes About Interdependence

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

He doesn't sacrifice himself for others, nor does he expect others to be sacrificed for him. He takes the third alternative —  he  finds  relationships  that  are  mutually beneficial so that no sacrifice is required.

Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, for everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

In a healthy relationship, two people gradually transition from moving within a single orbit to moving in two separate, but overlapping, orbits. They are able to have their own friends, their own interests, their own schedules, and—most important—their own opinions, feelings, and thoughts, while still enjoying and preferring each other's company.

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.

the only people you need in your life are the people who needs you in theres

All things we possess are taken from others, and others in their turn await with outstretched hands to seize them.

If one being or thing, however apparently useless, were missing in this universe of endless variety, it would be as it were a note missing in a song.

Dogs are in many ways a human construct. We have co-evolved with them for so long that they are now attuned to human behavior, language, and emotion.

My mother wanted to be needed, but she never wanted to need anyone else. She would be the one baking cherry pies. She would be the one cleaning gutters and painting ceilings and pulling ivy out of the backyard. This is so often the paradox of truly, astoundingly capable people. They're never quite capable of sitting back and allowing the people around them to be the capable ones.

It's as if we are all moving through this world on a big old ship, holding on to one another as we cruise up the generous river of life. The water that floats us is always new, yet it flows in the same direction, over the same old sand.

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

Life and death go hand in glove.

perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

Gray tenía una visión exaltada del estratega como alguien que podía ver el sistema como un todo, captando las múltiples interdependencias y los numerosos factores en juego con el fin de averiguar y señalar dónde se podría aplicar la acción del modo más provechoso.

We are none of us free. We are tethered by our connections to other people, those we know as well as those we will never meet. What tethers us is our ability our responsibility to imagine them, to fathom their lives, their circumstances, what we have in common, and what sets us apart.

Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.

Book writing, like any good work, demonstrates that our myths about individualism are untrue. All work worth doing is necessarily dependent upon the work, goodwill, support, and kindnesses of others.

One mother could look after twelve children and decades later these twelve adults would fidget and struggle to look after that one mother.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.