Quotes About Dependency

They need other people to make them think they're alive. They only feel like they're important if someone else tells them they are.

Just about everything we use is the result of another's life, but that simple reality is rarely acknowledged in our society.

You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.

Do-saeng finally joined the conversation. Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.

You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.

Vorkosigan probably knew how, she reflected bitterly. Just like a man, to be underfoot in her life for days and then a quarter of a solar system away when she really needed him.

Maybe she needs me to be her basket case.

I need you more than I need freedom.

Then isn't this rather all a false funeral? Can't it help you to see that there is something wrong when all the dreams in this house-good or bad-had to depend on something that might never have happened if a man had not died? We always say at home: Accident was at the first and will be at the last a poor tree from which the fruits of life may bloom.

The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.

Conversely, we humans are born premature and highly dependent newborns whose brains are shaped through years of interactions with our caretakers and the environment.

Never did a tree fall that I did not feel a pang, and rightly so, for when the trees are gone, man will also be gone, for without them we cannot live. The very air we breathe comes from trees, and when they are gone, the air will thicken and men will die and our great towers of stone will fall away to rubble and there will be only weeds, and then grass to cover the unsightly mounds we leave behind.

they would have made me a ward of the state.

The guy can't chew his own food," said the first boy. "So his dogs have to chew it up for him. Then they spit it out, and then he eats it.

Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Tommy

but mortal man was helpless there…

whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

This generosity only highlighted Frank's chronic dependency and further embittered him.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It's not always easy to spot idolatry in ourselves. Until the Holy Spirit brings it to light, we may be unaware how tight a grip something has on us. For that reason, we should pay close attention to anything we're convinced we can't live without.

Cuando vives a dos el mundo se adapta a ese ruido, a ese ritmo, a esos perfiles, y la súbita ausencia del otro desencadena un cataclismo en el paisaje.

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