Quotes About Dependency

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.

I save all my problems for my mother.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

The Gandhi family is a pampered lot. They have only dealt with people at their beck and call.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

When you inject capital into the parent, it may or may not benefit the subsidiary.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.

They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times.

The lover is the one whose heart proclaims, "I had no need of you until I met you, but now I know I always needed you." Or alternatively, "I had no desire for you until I met you, and now I know that I have always desired you.

We are like an infant in the arms of God, unable to grasp but being transformed by the grasp.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

At give afkald på for sen forældrekærlighed er den eneste mulighed for at løse sig fra forbandelsen. Ordet 'afkald' kan føre til den falske antagelse, at denne nødvendige proces kan klares som en viljessag alene. Men sådan er det ikke.

Er de uelskedes sår nu lægt for altid? Hvordan skulle de være det, da den tidlige kærlighedsmangels traumatiske spor aldrig kan udviskes helt, og følelsen af fremmedhed desuden er menneskets grundbefindende! De uelskedes sår vil altid springe op på ny ved livets kritiske tidspunkter. Men vi kender retningen: Vi må igen slippe en afhængighed fri for at give plads for kærligheden. De uelskedes sår er det skød, vi fødes af mange gange.

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable. Gut bacteria, chloroplasts, mitochondria: all parasites, once.