Quotes About Interdependence

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

When one friend washes another both become clean.

Through others we become ourselves.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

We need to understand that the only people we need in our lives are the ones who need us in theirs.

Life is like a seesaw. You need someone to play with. Someone that can bring you higher than the sky and someone who can lift you up no matter how low you are.

Being strong doesn't mean that you can handle every difficult situation on your own, it means that you have the sense to ask God and others for help.

Remember that nobody makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who help you.

A healthier way of thinking and acting is to allow yourself to receive the help and love you need. You werent designed to live alone. You have limitations on your strength and abilities.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Remember, you don't have to rely only on yourself to solve problems. Learn when and how — and who — to ask for help.

Que te quede bien claro. Donde acaba tu boca, ahí empieza la mía.

Ellos, en cambio, no se querían: se necesitaban.

Si tu bendita soledad se funde con la mía ya no sabré si soy en vos o vos terminás siéndome.

Women are, by nature, disposed to relationship and connectedness; yet true relationship cannot be embraced until a woman as a deep sense of her at-one-ment. Without this essential independence from all roles and bonds, she is a potential victim for servitude.

There were people who could live on their own and be happy, and then there were people like Pen and Margaret who needed the falling together, the daily work of giving and taking and talk and touch.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.

We are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young, and hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old...We need deep and satisfying and loyal friendships with each other. These friendships are a necessary source of sustenance. We need to renew our faith every day. We need to lock arms and help build the kingdom so that it will roll forth and fill the whole earth.

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.

Is everybody supposed to run current account surpluses? If so, with whom—Martians? And if everybody does indeed try to run a savings surplus, what else can be the outcome but a permanent global depression?

We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.