Quotes About Interdependence

When we look at waves in the ocean, we see each one as independent in its formation and at the same time inseparable from the whole. The is no such thing as a wave without the ocean. In the same way we are inseparable from each other and are connected to the whole body of life

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

You need strong human connections to help you get on the second curve and flourish.

Henry David Thoreau, who wrote, Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the meadow's pride, For both are strong Above they barely touch, but undermined Down to their deepest source . . . Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.[53]

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

We must teach our children, our students, and our political and corporate leaders the fundamental facts of life—for example, that one species' waste is another species' food; that matter cycles continually through the web of life; that the energy driving the ecological cycles flows from the sun; that diversity assures resilience; that life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking.

We shall try to show in the following that the views of modern physics are in agreement with the two ideas basic to Eastern philosophy that have been described above: the idea that the universe is an organic unity whose parts are interdependent and inseparable, and the idea that the cosmos is alive. Both of these ideas also arise in quantum mechanics and in relativity theory and find their clearest modern expression in quantum field theory.