Quotes About Interdependence

At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.

The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Earth is a family business.

In a morally healthy family the good of each member of a family includes and overlaps with the good of other members. When one family member flourishes, so typically do the others.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail

Appreciate all of the amazing things others can bring to your life, but dont depend on them for creating your happiness.

Everyone wants that person to catch them when they fall instead of getting up by themselves and being a stronger person than they were before.

When life get's tough, don't be ashamed or be too proud to ask for help.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.