Quotes About Interdependence

we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.

Just as we cannot think of spatial objects at all apart from space, or temporal objects apart from time, so we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.

Ninguém é nada sozinho, somos o nosso comportamento com o outro.

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Dependency is but one of the forms of behavior to which we incorrectly apply the word "love" when concern for spiritual evolution is absent.

no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, It's my own business.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.

William James wrote: "Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir.

Remember, Mr. Jenkins, you're great on Benjamin Franklin's saying, 'We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately

We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.

No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone

Coupling is the idea that behaviors are linked to very specific circumstances and conditions.

Successful people don't do it alone.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.

All success comes through other people.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.