Quotes About Interdependence

En el amor se da la paradoja de dos seres que se convierten en uno y, no obstante, siguen siendo dos.

The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

ties knotted to a wasp's waist at his neck.

We were like a fire triangle, he was the oxygen, I was the flame, and together we made the fuel. All mixed together we were a fire.

Nessun uomo è un'isola, completo in se stesso; ogni uomo è un pezzo del continente, una parte del tutto. Se anche solo una nuvola venisse lavata via dal mare, l'Europa ne sarebbe diminuita, come se le mancasse un promontorio, come se venisse a mancare una dimora di amici tuoi, o la tua stessa casa. La morte di qualsiasi uomo mi sminuisce, perché io sono parte dell'umanità. E dunque non chiedere mai per chi suona la campana: suona per te.

Amíg egyikünk él, mind a ketten élünk.

Nul homme n'est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d'un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi. --Ernest Hemingway, "Pour qui sonne le glas"?

According to Scripture, everything is connected, and every action has at least some effect on the whole.

All relationships live in the shadow of the third, for it is the other that solders our dyad. In his book Monogamy, Adam Phillips writes, "The couple is a resistance to the intrusion of the third, but in order for it to last it is indispensable to have enemies. That is why the monogamous can't live without them. When we are two, we are together. In order to form a couple, we need to be three.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity.

De ene mens mag de andere nooit tot middelpunt van zijn leven maken.

They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo.

Misha had appeared chez Viktor a year before, when the zoo was giving hungry animals away to anyone able to feed them. Viktor had gone along and returned with a king penguin. Abandoned by his girlfriend the week before, he had been feeling lonely. But Misha had brought his own kind of loneliness, and the result was now two complementary lonelinesses, creating an impression more of interdependence than of amity.

Shit and cabbage always go hand in hand,' Percival Schuttenbach said pithly. 'One drives the other. It's a perpetum mobile.

By your hand the people shall live

Necessary connections are fabulous beasts.

La vida era así, una interminable cadena de favores mutuos, y desentenderse de la familia y de los seres cercanos cuando la necesitaban le hubiera parecido una traición imperdonable.

They lived in such a deep state of feeling for each other, whether love or hate, that it surrounded them like the weather.

To love does not mean to surrender, dissolve, and merge with another person. It is the noble opportunity for an individual to ripen, to become something in and of himself. To become a world in response to another is a great immodest challenge that has sought him out and called him forth.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

We're not the sort of couple who lives in each other's pockets. We live our own lives. It means we have something to say to each other when we finally get together.

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.