Quotes About Interdependence

Love cannot exist without freedom, just as freedom cannot exist without love.

Love takes support from two people, love can't stand up with one doing all the work.

Love is not about leading or following. Its about breathing together.

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart — about a finger's breadth — for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

I think I thought I could I can but not without you.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.

The human person, the human being, is not just an object among objects, not just a thing in the world. The human being is a being-in-the-world, a being-with-others, a being-for-others.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Spirit is not in the I but between I and You.

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Beziehung ist Gegenseitigkeit. Mein Du wirkt an mir, wie ich an ihm wirke. Unsre Schüler bilden uns, unsre Werke bauen uns auf. Der >>Böse<< wird offenbarend, wenn ihn das heilige Grundwort berührt. Wie werden wir von Kindern, wie von Tieren erzogen! Unerforschlich einbegriffen leben wir in der strömenden Allgegenseitigkeit.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.