Quotes About Interdependence

Differences are not intended to separate or to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

I've come to realize that the only people I need in my life are the ones who need me in theirs even when I have nothing else to offer them but myself.

I didn't love you because I needed someone, I loved you because you were there for me when I didn't need you.

Every man needs a woman when his life is a mess, because just like in a game of chess; the queen protects the king.

May you learn something from this present instance. Remember it well. Affection is always precious. What we cannot do alone in life, because there are things we cannot ask, or do, or wish, or learn by ourselves, we can do together, without there needing to be thirteen of us, as in the Balzac novel,107 or four, as in The Three Musketeers. I bid you farewell." He

C'est peut-être de la même manière qu'une sorte de bouture prélevée sur un être, et greffée au cœur d'un autre, continue à y poursuivre sa vie, même quand l'être d'où elle avait été détachée a péri.

the only truth is that every human being is a small island. You can build bridges, but you'll always be an island and everything else is a lie.

Una pareja se compone de dos personas autónomas, ¡no es una amalgama única, por Dios!

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

shipmates might depend. That word: teamwork. It

A relationship like a short circuit, their mutual frailties feeding each other.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

We could have been anything we wanted, yet our free-floating individualism has taken us far from community, contribution or connection, the very things that truly give life meaning and purpose.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

What about the world do you most love? The fact that I'm not here by myself. -from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine

As Luce Iri- garay explains, "What makes me one, and perhaps even unique, is the fact that you are and I am not you.

No hay que limitarse a dar; también es preciso exigir y aprender a hacerlo. Quiero decir que cuando el uno permite al otro satisfacer determinadas exigencias, se ennoblecen los dos. De lo contrario, sólo se consigue mantener tiranos y mártires.

no somos átomos aislados en este mundo, y nuestra conducta influye necesariamente en las vidas de muchas otras personas, a las que estamos ligados por lazos de sangre o de amistad.