Quotes About Dependency

Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines - they aren't 'rules,' because the sanctions for breaching the guidelines are puny.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down.

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

It's still important to have my dad there. He's the one that brought me up and we spent a lot of time together. It's very difficult for me to let him go. He knows what's best for me and my tennis.

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love...

That Indian was stuck. From living in one place and eating the white man's food, he'd gotten weak. Flour, sugar, biscuits—none of that stuff can keep you going for long. You need meat in the winter, good fresh meat with plenty of fat on it. But there wasn't any meat around, at least not nearby. The white man had chased it away and the Indian, not being a hunter anymore, didn't have the strength to go any long distance for it.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

The great source of terror in infancy is solitude. William James (1890)

The primary fantasy of connection leads to a posture of pseudo-independence in the developing child—"I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"—yet the irony is that the more the person relies on fantasy, the more helpless he or she becomes in the real world and the more he or she demands to be taken care of.

Emotional deprivation is at the core of neurotic addiction and abnormal dependency.

They may alternate between an extremely dependent posture on one hand, and an authoritarian stance when they are in the parental mode.

A person who comes to depend on self-mothering through fantasy, together with self-nourishing habits and routines, develops an illusion of self-sufficiency, of needing nothing from the outside world in terms of love and care. Paradoxically, the more a person relies on this process, the less able one is to function in society and actually satisfy basic requirements for living.

The author sees resistance as the holding on to an imaginary connection to others, due to the dread of re-experiencing one's sense of aloneness and helplessness. Ultimately, resistance functions in order to protect the individual from experiencing anxiety states that arise from the threats to the neurotic resolution of the basic conflict—the conflict between dependency on inner fantasy for gratification versus a desire for real gratification in the interpersonal environment.

It is no coincidence that demons and drug dealers often use the same opening line ("Just try a little; it will feel good"), or that religious people often see demons in drugs. For habituation to any goal—sex or power, say—is literally an addictive process, a growing dependence on the biological chemicals that make these things gratifying.

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.

He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world

Sometimes I feel I am two people, reaching after two different lives. Or rather, joined to you, I am a different person from who I am when we are apart. When we are together, I lose Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something. I don't know what to call it. My ability to be only myself.