Quotes About Interdependence

phrase no man is an island means that no one is truly self-sufficient, everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive.

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

All life is profoundly dependent on communication.

We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.