Quotes About Interdependence

Now they are struggling to find that balance-- separated but still inseparable, apart but still a part.

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

LYNDA: Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed? TINY: Agreed!

Are you two inseparable now? I asked you. You laughed. Don't you know, Evan? People are always separable. I wanted to say I had once thought the two of us were inseparable. But that would have only proven your point.

You're on your own … until you're not.

It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

I am reminded how households with only two people have a different kind of gravity than others. We need the background noise, because otherwise the burden is entirely on us.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.125

La vida es eso. Sembrar relaciones de mutua utilidad. Una buena agenda es el mejor amigo del hombre.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities.

What are we without the ones we love?

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

I'm not good at accepting help.

All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.

Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

We're all in this alone.

Man has been adjudged a social animal.