Quotes About Interdependence

Both women and men could benefit from learning each other's styles. Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could learn from women to accept interdependence without seeing it as a threat to their freedom.

The main difference between these alternatives is symmetry. Dependence is an asymmetrical involvement: One person needs the other, but not vice versa, so the needy person is one-down. Interdependence is symmetrical: Both parties rely on each other, so neither is one-up or one-down. Moreover

There's a honey-do-list for you on your nightstand in case you get to feeling like I managed just fine without you. And a wish list of movies I want to see, and books I'd like you to buy me." She bit her lip. "Actually I bought most of the books and called them gifts, so maybe you should give me back that list to update once more.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Of this we can be certain: at no time, in no place, and in no way is anything in the universe separate, independent, or unrelated.

The relational aspect of all things is the music that sets life and the universe dancing.

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world's rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.

Every relationship is one of give and take.

A star needs a star.

Life eats life to live.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you're doing right back at you.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

You all are the reason for my existence, if there is no YOU, there is no ME

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life