Quotes About Interdependence

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It's not so much about what I can get for myself; it's about how we can all get by together.

What are YOU trying to accomplish? Do you have Whos in your life that give you the perspectives, resources, and ability to go beyond what you could do alone? Or are you keeping your goals so small to make them easier to accomplish them on your own?

Relationships are how you transform as a person. Relationships are how you transcend your current limitations. Relationships are how you produce results. Relationships are the purpose of life.

Seems like in real life, it's not one person saving the other… more like both people making each other better. I mean, that's why God made both genders, right?

Easy equation. No jobs, no people. No people, no kids. No kids, no schools. No schools, no community. No community, no jobs, and the snake eats its tail and consumes itself.

Co-dependency i? a way of ?v?iding ?n?'? own lif? b? t?king ?n th? ?r?bl?m? of ?n?th?r. Codependents t?nd t? ?v?id th?ir own liv?? b? tr?ing to solve th? problems ?f ?th?r people.

We focus on what we can see—individual skills. But individual skills are not what matters. What matters is the interaction.

The mechanism of cooperation can be summed up as follows: Exchanges of vulnerability, which we naturally tend to avoid, are the pathway through which trusting cooperation is built.

They did not rely on any outside structure or safety net. They were the structure, and if any of them failed, the group would fail.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I used to believe that synchronizing with others was merely a mechanical process. Now I believe that it requires a sense of belonging, rewards a sense of purpose, and reveals a part of our nature.

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice—which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others.

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice—which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to be a human concept rather than a western one.

He regrets not having "the experience of hardship and sacrifice," of depending on others for survival and of their relying on him. "If you're serving someone, it means you're not serving yourself

Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

The healthy move to adulthood is toward interdependence, not complete "do-it-yourself" isolation.

We are not meant to live in isolation, but are dependent on one another for emotional well-being.

human connections shape neural connections, and each contributes to mind. Relationships and neural linkages together shape the mind. Mind is more than the sum of its parts; this is the essence of emergence.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.