Quotes About Interdependence

When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won't matter.

We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

El poder nunca existe de manera aislada; siempre involucra a otros actores y se ejerce en relación con ellos.

He said that woman is like the ivy-vine, Which, clinging to its oak, grows lush and tall, But, lacking that support, can't thrive at all.

His hand touched my leg and I grabbed it. I held it with both of mine, like he was a lifeline and I needed saving. Or maybe I was the lifeline and he needed saving. Was it possible we could save each other?

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

In the beginning of life, we need others to survive. At the end of life, we need others to survive. In between, we need others as well.

Women are the twin halves of men

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization

Giving and taking is the law of any relationship, when you are all standing on the same ground. In terms of power or control.

Love cannot exist when the chain of give-and-take is broken.

Since the tree is useless on its own without the support of the roots, you must help out your fellow friend to keep humanity alive throughout every generation.

Tell them that we are all one living body that cannot be separated from nature.

The concept of the black and white people boils down to: No light without darkness—You depend on each other!

The family demands wealth to continue. The work requires family support. Wealth needs someone, the family, to consume it. Otherwise, it will be boring to try to enjoy it in solitude.

When a man seeks a woman's society it is because he has need of her, not because he thinks she has need of him;

Indeed, sometimes when people are locked up by themselves they quite literally go mad. Without human society, they don't know who they are anymore. It seems that we humans were designed to find our purpose and meaning not simply in ourselves and our own inner lives, but in one another and in the shared meanings and purposes of a family, a street, a workplace, a community, a town, a nation.

It is individualism and collectivism that cancel each other out; properly understood, the corporate and the personal reinforce one another.4

There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls 'myself.' Personal holiness and global holiness belong together. Those who wake up to the one may well find themselves called to wake up to the other as well.

Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions In aggregations of many things, or in individual things Therefore, all entities are empty.