Quotes About Dependency

Sometimes is [God loves me more than I think] still allows us and our need to be at the center of the world, and God becomes our psychic errand boy given the task of inflating our self esteem.

But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.

he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too-adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us

Everything hinged on money

Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

Patrick asked him, not for the first time, but with renewed desperation, what it would mean to be free, to live beyond the tyranny of dependency and conditioning and resentment.

Ninety per cent of the drugs were for him and ten per cent for Natasha, a woman who remained an impenetrable mystery to him during the six months they lived together. The only thing he felt certain about was that she irritated him; but then, who didn't?

Once he had taken heroin he could imagine being without it;

Yet weakness—or neediness—is a valuable asset in God's community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other people is a good thing. Otherwise, we trick ourselves into thinking that we are self-sufficient, and arrogance is sure to follow. We need help, and God has given us his Spirit and each other to provide it.

Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God).

Fear" in the biblical sense is a much broader word. It includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Dope broke the back of this already moribund

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.

It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.

A young population, then, can have contradictory implications for production, since such bulges in population can be an economic burden during the period that its members are infants and young children, but the bulge then contributes to a boom when those children grow into their productive years – and then again it becomes a burden when they grow old, especially if the

Las dependencias, supongo, son vicios difíciles de quebrar.

There is value in any experience that reminds us of our dependency on the soil-plant-animal-man food chain [...] Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relation with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Nada más peligroso, cuando se necesita ayuda, que recibir ayuda.

Qué haré conmigo? Porque a Ti te debo lo que soy

Tu aliento se me fue haciendo costumbre, y ahora lo único que sé es que ya no podría vivir sin él; lo necesito junto a mí y para siempre, contra mi propia almohada. En tu casa o en la mía ¡qué importa! cualquiera de las dos puede ser la nuestra. Elige tú.