Quotes About Interdependence

If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care. But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

It is a false dichotomy to think of Nature and Man. Mankind is a factor in Nature which exhibits in its most intense form the plasticity of Nature.

Smoke and fire go together always.

With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history'd have us be. We're only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here's to those others who helped, that's my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.

believe that there's no such thing as society.

Thanks, little brother," said the Dump to Blue. "You helped me and they helped you. Now I see a lot depends on a helping hand from a few good friends!

What I took it to mean was: women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities.

Disabled people caring for each other can be a place of deep healing," says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

Even the notion of "quality of life" as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a "good" healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering. I live with all three intimately, and I feel more vital than ever at this point in time because of my experiences and relationships. Vulnerable "high-risk" people are some of the strongest, most interdependent, and most resilient people around.

I raise my glass to karma—which, I'm realizing, is sometimes a group effort.

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

There are in the world no such men as self-made men. The term implies an individual independence of the past and present which can never exist. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "SELF-MADE MEN

It's not a sin to accept help once in a while. - Colonel Kincaid

Bir ekip, ancak en zay?f halkas? kadar güçlüydü sonuçta. (syf. 240)

The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were texts into which others were free to enter, or not. Letters, on the other hand, did not exist without the other person, and their very mission, their significance, was the epiphany of the recipient.

There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.