Quotes About Interdependence

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.

Freedom and love are entwined. —Lady Sharine

Strength doesn't mean never relying on anyone.

We can do without things easier than we can do without people.

When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Physicists know that if you and I are sitting in a room together, you exert a gravitational force on me. It's almost nothing-I can't feel it-but it's the same force that binds our planet to our star.

Nos salvamos juntos o nos hundimos separados.» Juan Rulfo, México y los mexicanos

Other people can also help you take care of your needs and desires. Whatever

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

A spider only has to set at the edge of a puddle to catch the fly that dives to drink. A shrew has only to watch in turn for the spider. For the fly most come to the edge to drink, and the spider must follow the fly. Fate goes ever as it must.

Cryptography by itself is fairly useless. It has to be part of a much larger system.

We were each other's armor. And in that moment, we each became the other's lance, sword, and shield.

When we really love and are loved, we are no longer free to act as we please, because we can't shake off the knowledge that whatever we do affects those we love and who love us. This is what family means... Mutual love and responsibility, and the discipline of love.

Meaning is not in things but in-between them.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

No one achieves wealth and power exclusively through his or her own efforts. You can pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but someone gave you the boots.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Curt Loehr, the Oankali said, needed people to look after. People stabilized him, gave him purpose. Without them, he might have been a criminal—or dead.

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero. (17th Karmapa)

A Peloponnesian strait is what the earth gives to the water, and Crete what the water gives to the earth.

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate. That is how it works. Like a Japanese car.