Quotes About Dependency

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Television she could do without for a night or two, but having no Internet was akin to having no hot water. It just wasn't a livable sort of thing.

Pampering, sometimes called "spoiling," makes your child dependent on you. As you will learn, it is important to meet all of your child's needs for love and basic care, but it can be harmful to give in to all her wants. As you gain information and knowledge, remember to access your heart and inner wisdom to find the balance of interaction that is respectful and healthy for you and your child.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

Moreover, people feel no gratitude for something to which they are entitled. The very notion of grateful welfare recipients is almost comical. Many of them do not even realize that what is given to them had to be taken from someone else. They are left with the literally demoralizing notion that food stamps and welfare checks drop from the sky and are theirs by right. This warped, unhealthy view is easily passed on to children.

As one prominent poll taker reports, "the greatest difference between blacks and whites in polling [is that] the vast majority of blacks believe government can solve anything."290 For many blacks, government is a symbol of white America. White people could solve black people's problems if they really wanted to. Since the government has not solved all their problems, it must not want to.

The black leaders of this generation have much to answer for. They have perpetuated the myth that salvation comes only from whites. They have made careers out of shaking down a guilt-ridden society and dispensing the booty as patronage. In Thomas Sowell's words, these are men "whose own employment and visibility depend upon maintaining an adequate flow of injustices…."1026 Their very livelihoods depend on finding enough white wickedness to denounce.

The path of evolution depends on the type of interface: additions to an API are acceptable, while removing functionality is not. In SPIs removals are allowed, while additions are not.

Without our caretaker's protection, our only protection is to stay small and build defensive structures into our personality.

Worse, when a woman insists on playing the role of messiah, she often ends up being pulled into her boyfriend's problems instead of pulling him out of them.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

Over several months, the drug had completely rewired my brain, hijacking more and more of my pain receptors, and now I needed OxyContin simply to exist. I couldn't sleep, or eat, or focus in class. And no one warned me this was going to happen. No one told me to expect a struggle.

Lo que es muy raro es sentir debilidad, verdadera debilidad por alquien, y que nos la produzca, que nos haga débiles. Eso es lo determinante, que nos impida ser objetivos y nos desarme a perpetuidad y nos haga rendirnos en todos los pleitos.

But all this is pure conjecture and hypothesis, yet there are times when the lives of others, of another (the configuration of a life, its continuation, not a few mere steps), do depend on our decisions and vacillations, on our cowardice or daring, on our words and on our hands, and sometimes on the fact that we have money and they do not.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Socialists know that as long as the family remains strong, socialism cannot flourish. So, there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home to the government.

Lo más difícil de observar es el mito personal, el tema de la identidad a través de la cual se percibe el mundo. Cuando se logra observarlo, desaparece como filtro y entonces la "Ignorancia Iluminada" se despierta porque ya no existe nada a qué aferrarse, nada de qué depender, nada conocido y familiar que otorgue seguridad.

If your "love" has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a more complete and deeper sense of self, a need that the other person temporarily meets.

Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of peace. You may not be happy, but you will be at peace.

Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them — while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.

What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It

The happiness that is derived from some secondary source is never very deep. It is only a pale reflection of the joy of Being, the vibrant peace that you find within as you enter the state of nonresistance. Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of