Quotes About Dependency

La opinión que esa gente le merece no es buena y se enfada consigo mismo por sentirse tan afectado por esas miradas. Es algo que carece de lógica. ¿Cómo es posible que alguien que estime tan poco a la gente, dependa tanto de su opinión?

Teresa las mira con simpatía y piensa que la humanidad vive a costa de las vacas, del mismo modo en que la tenía vive a costa del hombre: se ha enganchado a su teta como una sanguijuela. El hombre es un parásito de la vaca, así definiría probablemente un no-hombre al hombre en su zoología

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

Already my life was not mine, Now someone has made my Dreams the Tenement so, I have no way other than to love the Patron....!

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.

The possibility of incorrect results in the presence of unlucky timing is so important in concurrent programming that it has a name: a race condition. A race condition occurs when the correctness of a computation depends on the relative timing or interleaving of multiple threads by the runtime; in other words, when getting the right answer relies on lucky timing.

Melange is the financial crux of CHOAM activities. Without this spice, Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers could not perform feats of observation and human control, Guild Navigators could not see safe pathways across space, and billions of Imperial citizens would die of addictive withdrawal. Any simpleton knows that such dependence upon a single commodity leads to abuse. We are all at risk.

Tlaloc realized how the human race had gone stagnant, how people had become so dependent on machines that they had nothing left but apathy. Their goals were gone, their drive, their passion. When they should have had nothing to do but unleash their creative impulses, they were too lazy to perform even the work of the imagination

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

It would probably be best if they were separated, anyway, Margo continued. They're feeling very close now, but it's an abnormal situation. They might be developing a dependency which would interfere with their resocialization later. She sounded like a textbook on child psychology that Maddy had once read. Reasonable, and yet somehow wrong. Maddy's own intuition was that if you found someone you liked and trusted, you held on for dear life.

I believed for a long time that I could affect my mother's drinking. Like many children of alcoholics, I thought if I asked a certain way, or made some type of deal with my mother where I promised something, it would be compelling enough to make her stop.

Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest

A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity.