Quotes About Interdependence

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Whoever injures another injures himself because he decreases the opportunities for gain that come through co-operation and exchange.

Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.

being a manager' means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

As unto the bow the cord is,So unto the man is woman,Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him, yet she follows,Useless each without the other!

All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.

Today, for most kids in the United States and Canada, kids' primary attachment is to other kids. "For the first time in history," Neufeld observes, "young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. .

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.

the various currents are not isolated entities.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct.

The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.

If hunting is by definition a predatory occupation, gardening is a symbiotic one; and in the loose ecological pattern of the early garden, the interdependence of living organisms became visible, and the direct involvement of man was the very condition for productivity and creativity.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.