Quotes About Interdependence

You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here's the thing: I don't want to.

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while.

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another. —THOMAS MERTON

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted.

Nobody is completely self-made; return the favors and good fortune.

It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.

leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership.45 Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand.

No man, woman or child is an island. We are ultrasocial creatures, and we can't be happy without having friends and secure attachments to other people.

Most societies have chosen the sociocentric answer, placing the needs of groups and institutions first, and subordinating the needs of individuals. In contrast, the individualistic answer places individuals at the center and makes society a servant of the individual.

you don't usually help the bees by destroying the hive. Finally

We are who we are in relation to others.

It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.

S]ocial life cannot be reduced to a series of market exchanges. We need covenants as well as contracts; meanings as well as preferences; loyalties, not just temporary associations for mutual gain. These things go to the heart of who we are. They are the 'signals of transcendence' in the midst of a fast-paced world. For life to have personal meaning, there must be people who matter to us, and for whom we matter, unconditionally and nonsubstitutably.

This is one of only two instances in the whole Torah in which the words lo tov, "not good," appear. The other is in Genesis (2:18), where God says, "It is not good [lo tov] for man to be alone." We cannot lead alone. We cannot live alone. To be alone is not good.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

One doctor makes work for another.

El amor tiene dos modalidades: hacia uno mismo y hacia los demás. Es como la respiración: el aire viene y va . Cuando hay apego, es como si se inspirara más de lo que se expele. << todo para mi >>. Mas hacia lo propio, la familia, el bando; menos hacia los demás. Eso no es equilibrado.

El verdadero amor no es apego, no encadena ni se encadena; más bien libera y se libera. Quienes se aman de verdad no necesitan estar pegados como siameses

No necesitamos tanto de la ayuda de nuestros amigos cuanto de la confianza en esa ayuda.

It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.