Quotes About Dependency

When we're very young, our godlike parents are everything to us. Without them, we would be unloved, unprotected, unhoused, and unfed, living in a constant state of terror, knowing we were unable to survive alone.

Even after we grow up, many of us continue to believe that we have little control over our lives. We may see others as the decision-makers in our lives and come to view life as something that happens to us. This belief system, reinforced by childhood identification with mothers who model extreme dependency and helplessness, set many women up for abusive marriages.

Every decision you make becomes intricately interwoven with the rest of your family. Your feelings, behaviors, and decisions are no longer your own. You are not yourself, you are an appendage of your family system.

I respect the values that imbued my personal trajectory, I must avoid the degradations and dependencies of pointless suffering. "Death has dominion," Ronald Dworkin explains, "because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying—the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity'—shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we want to have lived.

Overindulgence in anything eventually enslaves.

If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

We expect God's love to be all nice and neatly packaged. But He'll do what He has to in order to draw us to that place where we need Him. Know Him. Are overwhelmed by His lover for us.

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

I always took equal justice for granted. It was kind of a shock to realize how much depends on access to money and power.

But you're not worried anymore?" "Only in the way everyone worries when you realize someone else's well-being is necessary to your own.

Odd to think of myself that way, small and blind and tethered to her. In that time before memory, everything I touched was hers. I heard her voice from the inside, with no idea that she was a separate person. Back then, she had simply been the world.

our relations were those of a capital to a colony: diplomatic and vigorously cordial.

Tammy said, "Or else it's like an addiction. Politics is, or how you feel about what you are is, or how you feel about identity and what it makes you do. Same appetite. It all depends on what you like: uppers or downers.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

There's a school of wisdom about love that says the surest way to lose someone is to hold on to them too tightly -- as demonstrated over and over again by the split-ups of lovers, but also by parents and children. Although there it's more complicated by far. Lovers, initially strangers, become strangers again; the tie between parent and child pulls and twists for a lifetime, taking on the strangest forms.

Emerge la clase dirigente que, inevitablemente, se convertirá en parásito de la productora (así ha funcionado el mundo desde entonces).

Maturitatea aduce cu sine iluzia pernicioas? a controlului, ?i s-ar putea chiar s? depind? de ea.

It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

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.

El padre es el techo, la madre el suelo, y cuando ambos desaparecen uno siente que también ha iniciado la cuenta atrás y que ya no tiene sujeción alguna, quedando suspendido en el aire.

El padre es el techo, la madre el suelo, y cuando ambos desaparecen uno siente que también ha iniciado la cuenta atrás y que ya no tiene sujeción alguna, quedando suspendido en el aire. Se

I can live with you hating me," he said to the closed door. "I just can't live without you.