Quotes About Dependency

For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. -Matthew 6:8

Up here, if they found them, they were helpless. People don't look up, she thought. Melissa was sleeping now, but what if she woke and cried?

Until she met Peter, she had her meds figured out and it was like she finally got it, how to manage meds with sleep and diet. She hadn't had a manic episode for ages until he convinced her to go off her meds and let him take care of her. He was against all medication.

Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique's filing cabinet.

Así solo, no sirve para nada ni el dinero ni nada de lo que tengo. Ni yo mismo. No sirvo para nada sin ti. Te quiero. Soy tuyo. No sirvo sino para desearte, y quererte mucho, siempre, toda la vida.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

I naturally think that my desire is mine, is of me, that I am it's subject and I know what I want. But so to think is not to see that desire is making me. The me is a highly mutable construct, radically dependent on the desires of others. The failure to recognize is not a mistake about something of which the 'me' might be conscious, but is a failure to rest peaceably on what made it possible for there to be a conscious "me" at all.

True solitude does not come from being physically alone but from the discovery that a fundamental problem of ours cannot find its solution in us or in others.

Imposible beber sin fumar

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize—it's a kind of horror—that this is my life. And I can't stop. I just can't stop. I can't stop anymore.

The central attitudes driving the Drill Sergeant are: I need to control your every move or you will do it wrong. I know the exact way that everything should be done. You shouldn't have anyone else — or any thing else — in your life besides me. I am going to watch you like a hawk to keep you from developing strength or independence. I love you more than anyone in the world, but you disgust me. (!!)

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

One exercise that can help you address this trap involves making a list of all the ways, including emotional ones, in which you feel dependent on your partner, then making another list of big or small steps you might take to begin to become more independent. These lists can guide you in focusing your energy in the directions you need to go.

Jesus plus something else does not double your security. It actually takes it away. The only security is Jesus plus nothing.

Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise.

People don't mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is equipped to be the constant lifeline to another.

simple but very profound truth, "How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

Being ruled by anything other than God is something God takes quite seriously. And so should I. I don't want to live as an enemy to the cross of Christ. In other words, I don't want to live resistant to the power Christ's death and resurrection provides for me just because I can't walk away from my unhealthy cravings.

forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really? A quick check to see

Insecurities should not prompt me to get things from others that I should be getting from God. Rather they should prompt me to give to others so I can point them to God.

I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.

We are taught to remain in God's love so that we won't tie our happy to anything but God.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Still another and all-sufficient answer to the argument that the use of spirituous liquors tends to poverty, is that, as a general rule, it puts the effect before the cause. It assumes that it is the use of the liquors that causes the poverty, instead of its being the poverty that causes the use of the liquors.