Quotes About Interdependence

This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

A vida é um colar. Eu dou o fio, as mulheres dão as missangas.

In a small group the dynamics are like those on a good basketball team," Kay observed. "Everybody has to be able to play the whole game. Each person should have certain things they're better at than the others, but everyone should be pretty good at everything.

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.

When an Amish person looks at a neighbor's farm and sees a barn that he or she helped build, it is reinforced that they are all together in this life. The Amish, therefore, are invested in one another.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

El arte es como una declaración de amor, la conciencia de que dependemos unos de otros. Una confesión. Un acto inconsciente que, sin embargo, refleja el verdadero significado de la vida: amor y sacrificio.

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

To produce the Music of the Spheres, the Harmonies of the Heavens, we need a collectivist, communitarian world where strong, autonomous individuals know that they get the best from themselves by getting the best from others. By helping others we most of all help ourselves

Since everything is connected to everything else, in order to understand anything it is necessary to understand everything.

No man is an island entire to himself

we must come to realize that once we have kids, individualism is impractical and self-defeating.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

cuanto más nos concebimos como seres hechos a sí mismos y autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

Global supply chains, capital flows, and the cosmopolitan identities they fostered made us less reliant on our fellow citizens

cannot associate with one another without creating a moral relationship.

We all cast our own shadows and chose where they fall, and the lives of men and women and otters and dogs and whales are linked forever across the reaches of time. We distance ourselves from them with our hunger for flesh, or our carelessness, or our cruelty. But what of the forces that bind us together?

Indiana and Illinois, the two states conjoined like Siamese twins.

Talk of you or me,' he told her, 'but never of 'us.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another.