Quotes About Dependency

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves. Don Colacho

As the Inuits say, "Gifts make slaves, as whips make dogs.

To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

The Oedipal mother makes a pact with herself, her children, and the devil himself. The deal is this: "Above all, never leave me.

It is to women's clear advantage that men do not happily put up with dependency among themselves. Part of the reason that so many a working-class woman does not marry, now, as we have alluded to, is because she does not want to look after a man, struggling for employment, as well as her children. And fair enough.

Social Institutions Are Necessary—but Insufficient

Sem dinheiro, não se fazia nada. Ou nós, viciados nele, não sabíamos fazer nada sem ele.