Quotes About Interdependence

Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

When a child's needs are not met (because they conflict with those of its caretakers), the child's boundaries become defined by the needs of others, limiting the development of the sense of "self." The child does not learn to experience its own needs; it experiences only the needs of others. This blurs the boundaries between the child and others, ultimately preventing the child from differentiating its own needs from those of others.

To a civilized man, beyond the simple animal need for food, the greatest necessity is a contact with other men...

Stop thinking only about individual recovery, he argues, and start thinking about "social recovery.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

One plus one equals both.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.