Quotes About Interdependence

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Wasteful moves are eliminated, and more and more purpose is condensed into each move. "Beautiful friendships" are often based on the fact that the players complement each other with great economy and satisfaction, so that there is a maximum yield with a minimum effort from the games they play with each other.

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.

Como dicen en la teoría de sistemas, lo que optimiza una parte del sistema necesariamente debilita el sistema en su conjunto.)

Love is a union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. It is an experience of sharing, or communing, which permits the full unfolding of ones own inner activity.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

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

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

Mother, sister, wife, and daughter are the four natural elements in any relationship between men and women.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

If any man is rich and powerful, he comes under that law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

I've always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can't love be simple? Why can't it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can't live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people? Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

When we carry a safety net made of cash, we allow the one made of community to slip through our fingers.

could have a stronger effect on the U.S. and global economies than if we acted alone.

Wall Street and Main Street are interconnected and interdependent,

If you refuse to go to the market, how would you know of the existence of others? How would you know of your own existence?