Quotes About Dependency

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

Codependency has a way of tearing at the very soul of a person; of a society too, I think.

I didn't eat." "What difference does that make?" "I'm not like you. I can't recharge by feeding off someone. I need food." "I know that! When was the last time you ate?" "Yesterday." "Yester--why the hell didn't you eat?" "We had to go buy condoms, remember?" "And you couldn't grab a sandwich on the way out?" he said hysterically. "I'm gonna die because you couldn't grab a sandwich?

I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but  .  .  . okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you  .  .  . for you.

We go to God in our neediness and poverty because we know that—in His abundance—He has all that we need. Teaching our children to pray is showing them how to do life with God instead of doing it alone.

I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills. If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

I'm a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I'd burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It's scary to feel like you can't breathe without someone.

I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.

As long as women walk this earth, I'll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I'm done.

The only question of any significant emotive content is: can you live without it?

I'm a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I'd burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It's scary to feel like you can't breathe without someone. That a man has so much power over you because you love him as much as, if not more than, you care for yourself.

I ordered, Dad paid, just like old times when life was simple, and Daddy was always there to be my Friday night date whenever my latest boyfriend had been a jerk.

Being needed is toxic." "It's good to be needed. Means you're important." "It means there's an imbalance of power. There was no shortage of life-suckers before the walls fell. You're not responsible for the world just because you're more capable." " Ã¢â'¬â"¢Course I am. That's what more capable folks do.

Clock hands are ticking away my life at someone else's direction. It's so wrong.

I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them.

In the beginning, fifty hours sounded like a bleak ocean of time, more hours than Sawtooth wanted to spend with himself, let alone with another person. Now he needs the girl to sit and measure time with him, the way the neighbor woman needs her prescription mirror so that she doesn't forget her own face.

however, we start with the presumption that all life is a gift, then gratitude is not an occasional moment when we remember to say thank you to a spouse or to a service provider. Instead, it creates a way of living that acknowledges human neediness and dependency as unavoidable. Gratitude, then, becomes as normal as breathing.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

It's the same thing as any colonial structure anywhere: The business of making money depends on having a peon culture.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

It had no means of surviving but the thread that bound it to home.

By largely ignoring the core economy, mainstream economics has also overlooked just how much the paid economy depends upon it. Without all that cooking, washing, nursing and sweeping, there would be no workers—today or in the future—who were healthy, well-fed and ready for work each morning.