Quotes About Interdependence

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

God does not want us to be independent (standing alone) or code-pendent (unable to stand without someone's help); He wants us to be interdependent, meaning we need one another standing shoulder to shoulder to engage the adversary.

And we recall in Dickens' fiction how universal it is that a child looks after an adult, and how the adult remains so dependent upon the child that he becomes something worse than child-like.

Dem Begriff der Politischen Ökologie kommt wohl nicht zuletzt deshalb eine besondere Bedeutung zu, weil er den Bezug zum letztlich wertsetzenden menschlichen Lebensverband herstellt und die schicksalhafte Verbindung zwischen der Gestaltung dieses Lebensverbands und dem Schicksal der Natur betont, ohne sich jedoch aus dem alle Um- und Mitwelt-Wissenschaften umfassenden humanökologischen Kontext zu lösen

An organization is not, like an animal, an end in itself, and successful by the mere act of perpetuating the species. An organization is an organ of society and fulfills itself by the contribution it makes to the outside environment.

Discontinuities, irregularities, and volatilities seem to be proliferating rather than diminishing. In the world of finance, new instruments turn up at a bewildering pace, new markets are growing faster than old markets, and global interdependence makes risk management increasingly complex. Economic insecurity, especially in the job market, makes daily headlines. The environment, health

Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.

The earth is an indivisible whole, just as each of us is an indivisible whole.

System thinking is a discipline of seeing whole.

In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. In panic he thought, I'm dependent on them. Thank god they stayed.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople.

You have to be with other people...in order to live at all.

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the owrds we use to tie each other down.Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis

presumptuous—but he's got to he with someone

To me, this is a play about two people who are joined irreparably. They're handcuffed at the heart.

Earthly victories depend on heavenly victories, and vice versa.

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

The world, right now, is only us.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.