Quotes About Interdependence

There's no such thing as an independent person.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore.

We don't heal in isolation. We just get worse.

I need them and they need me to need them

To a degree that we seldom realize, we depend upon the participation of others in our lives, and upon our own participation in the lives of others. Our success and effectiveness as persons is based upon this participation, and upon an ability to maintain a controlling competence in communicating with others.

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

How many things would be different in everyone's surroundings if we hadn't lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don't know it.

Nothing is insignificant; nothing is without consequence in the intricate web of life.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

We bind ourselves to each other in times of strength so that in moments of weakness we do not become unbound.

Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Confronta-nos, realmente, a inflexível necessidade de descobrir um princípio de diferenciação, e contudo de relação, bastante lúcido para justificar e purificar o conhecimento científico, filosófico e qualquer outro, ao mesmo tempo que aceitando sua mútua interdependência.

The connection, creates a relationship, which becomes a partnership of the energies.

What really kept us apart for so long, what we both forgot, is that we are stronger together. Separately, we remember our weaknesses and our self-doubts and we falter.

Maybe it is beyond your perception right now, but because your physical form is just a fragment of the planet, everything that is happening to any part of the universe is also in some way happening to you!

L'intelligence universelle est sociable

Die Menschen sind für einander geboren. Also belehre oder dulde sie!

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.

Men exist for the sake of one another.