Quotes About Interdependence

Each thing's its own partner, each always both, depending on where you stand,

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

For me, other people are the point, but other people can disappear.

Remember we're all in this alone.

We're all in this together alone.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks

Partnership means you couldn't do it alone. Friendship means you didn't have to.

However small we made ourselves, we took space and air from our neighbours. We were a torment to one another.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

Si, sono contenta che tu sia rimasto lo stesso. Se t'avessero spostato, ridipinto, piantato sul margine d'un'altra strada, non avrei avuto più nulla di fisso per orientarmi. Tu mi sei indispensabile: io cambio; tu, è inteso che resti immutabile ed io misuro i miei cambiamenti in rapporto a te.

Ma liberté s'arrête ou commence celle d'autrui. 

What William wanted was of no importance, and he gradually lost his sense of self. He once described himself as an empty hole inside. If you have no sense of self, you are totally dependent. There is an emptiness inside, and the only way to fill it is to rely on someone else, someone who has a sense of self.

You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.

advance to the forms that other humans provide.