Quotes About Interdependence

And then he says something like this ... I would die for you. But I won't live for you. Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.

It was only thanks to the natives' skills as fishermen and root collectors that the Americans were able to survive.

Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws.

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

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy!

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley

When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be.

There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.