Quotes About Dependency

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

What has become clear is that we're not just connected to others. We are the very product of the people and networks to which we are connected.

To cook and clean yourself is intolerable. But to have someone else do it is exhausting.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Tell me which you could sooner do without, love or water." "What do you mean?" "I mean, could you live without love, or could you live without water?" "Why can't I have both?

physical and material prosperity depended upon their spiritual prosperity.

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1.

once the will is submitted to the Father the fundamental cause of our anxieties is now removed.

In everything regarding your salvation and the attainment of mercy, you are dependent on your soul. Thus no sacrifice can be too great for you. If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.

in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

In the first case the object works like a magnet upon the tendencies of the subject; it determines the subject to a large extent and even alienates him from himself.

Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it, or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependent upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. "Love ceases not"—whether he speaks with the "tongues of angels," or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source.

When the neurotic complains that the world does not understand him, he is telling us in a word that he wants his mother.

Worship of the anima as an officially recognized figure brings the serious disadvantage that she loses her individual aspects. On the other hand, if she is regarded as an exclusively personal being, there is the danger that, if she is projected into the outer world, it is only there that she can be found. This latter state of affairs can create endless trouble, because man becomes either the victim of his erotic fantasies or compulsively dependent on one actual woman.

Though it is a misfortune for a child to have no parents, it is equally dangerous for him to be too closely bound to his family. An excessively strong attachment to the parents is a severe handicap in his later adaptation to the world, for a growing human being is not destined to remain forever the child of his parents.

You are a slave to what you need in your soul.

There was never any question of marriage if that is what you think. Men do not understand me. They say, 'you needn't worry anymore. You don't have to do anything because I will take care of you.' But what they really mean is you don't have to do anything except be there for me.

or eliminate the need to carry a separate iPod and phone—and then found ourselves, years later, increasingly dominated by their influence, allowing them to control more and more of how we spend our time, how we feel, and how we behave.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

We added new technologies to the periphery of our experience for minor reasons, then woke one morning to discover that they had colonized the core of our daily life.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.