Quotes About Interdependence

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people

Nothing exists in isolation there is a purpose for everything

Your solution is in the next person

All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them

All the breakthroughs and miracles you need are in people

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He'll use the people around us for that

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other's washing.

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Collaboration is how most of our ancestors used to work and live, before machines came along and fragmented society. Time to plant the fields? Everybody pitched in and got it done. Harvesttime? The community raced to get the crops in before the rains came. Where were those crops stored? In barns built by teams of neighbors. In the cities, the same spirit applied. Anonymous craftsmen spent their lives building cathedrals that wouldn't be completed for generations.

El Paso is parasitic off of Juarez rather than vice versa.

when it comes to Root People, this is what I've learned along the way: They are here to help you, but in turn, like the roots of any tree or plant, they need to be nourished, too. Water them with love, appreciation, gratitude, and generosity. They want the best for you, and if your heart is open, you'll want the best for them, too.

Each cell of a living organism cooperates with the cell next to it. It does not need any sentiment or declarations of undying love to do so. Each cell is wise enough to know that if its neighbour goes, it also goes. The cells stick together not out of brotherhood, love and that kind of thing, but out of the urgent drive to survive.   It is the same with us, but only in a larger scale. Soon we will all come to know one simple thing: if I try to destroy you, I will also be destroyed.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.

O grupo é o começo de tudo aquilo que um homem só, fechado na sua prisão, nunca pode realizar.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.