Quotes About Dependency

When I crossed the street, according to my mother, I still had to hold someone's hand. At ten, I would be able to cross streets unhanded. I'd held on to Joseph's many times before, for many years, but holding his was like holding a plant, and the disappointment of fingers that didn't grasp back was so acute that at some point I'd opted to take his forearm instead.

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

a supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream

being jilted by a lover is a perfect introduction to the mechanisms of emotional dependency.

This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it, I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me. I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece but I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right, a help, a love, a you, a wife.

You're my only remaining link to the world

Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height if a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away, the soil cannot keep them any more.

That's two years of me living for someone else. How sad is that?

Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can't live without it and because not many people produce all of their own. And if its uncommon for a modern person to be food self-reliant, it is almost unheard of for a community to supply all of its own food.

Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Our social structures depend on the organization. The organization depends on industry, which in turn depends on the market. The market depends on society, which in turn relies on the environment. All

The need of those with narcissistic pathology to cling to ideal images of self and others means they do not have access to the dependent aspects of self, and cannot tolerate dependency in others, which is seen as a sign of weakness.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

From it came the constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, love of suffering humanity and of truth, justice and goodness. But it was not enough for him to seek justice, truth, honesty and goodness for their own sake and patiently to suffer for them. No, according to Bonhoeffer, we have to do so in loyal obedience to Him who is the source and spring of all goodness, justice and truth and on whom he felt absolutely dependent.

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

The needle that had made one the property of the child made the other the property of no man.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.

People don't run the cartel; the cartel runs people.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.