Quotes About Interdependence

All men being equally weak, each would feel equally in need of his fellow man's support and, knowing that cooperation was the condition of that support, would readily see that his private interest was subsumed in the general interest.

A multitude of particular facts cannot be seen separately, without at last discovering the common tie which connects them.

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.

THEY CANNOT KILL US, BECAUSE WITHOUT US THEY DIE.

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people … it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed … you can't miss it.

We are a symphony with one instrument playing all the parts. To make the symphony as dynamic as can be instruments must be given to other players.

One of the biggest things that's so toxic about ableism and capitalism is this idea that our worth is based on our productivity. We are interdependent. We know there's more to our worth than just whether we're taxpayers or whether we can work fort or more hours a week

No solo éramos invertidos, éramos inversiones el uno del otro

These days, you need powerful people to cooperate in terms of getting information, formal or informal approval to act, resources, introductions, and support (or room to maneuver) for implementation just to get your job done. Therefore, you can't achieve your objectives without getting help from others whom you do not control.

But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy.

Ningún camino digno de recorrer es fácil —repuso el padre Yarvi—. Cada uno de vosotros tiene puntos fuertes de los que el otro carece, puntos débiles que el otro compensa. Es algo hermoso, y muy excepcional, encontrar a alguien que… —Miró con gravedad las ramas que se movían sobre ellos, como si pensara en algo muy distante y doloroso—. Que te complete.

It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.

You'll never hold up someone who can't swim for themselves. In the end, they'll drag you down with them.

It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

Assim como é necessário energia para separar dois átomos de oxigênio que estão unidos, é preciso energia para quebrar os vínculos com as pessoas em nossa vida.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.

Aja como se todo mundo dependesse de você! Porque depende mesmo!

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps.

Family breathes for each other, and close family breathes as one.