Quotes About Dependency

You will never realize that Jesus is all you need, before he becomes all you have.

first things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

Odd how you can live the bulk of your life without someone. Then once you meet her and she becomes part of your life, you can't imagine living another day without sharing it with her.

I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

If you need a kid to keep you together, then how together are you?

Mr. Hamilton, I do need her." He shook his head. "You don't even know yet what need is.

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

We all keep spare sets of full lungs in our homes, but when one is alone, the act of opening one's chest and replacing one's lungs can seem little better than a chore.

We're a fast-moving, needy species.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.