Quotes About Interdependence

Yes, and one of the insurance policies is that there are many of us. We're like a back-up support.

This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don't. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in the War on Drugs. We could not exist without each other.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.