Quotes About Dependency

The very minute you are not depending on bread alone for your life, you are spiritual. The very minute you know that money isn't supply, that money is only one of the forms that supply takes for our temporary use—the minute you know that—you're spiritual.

You were my everything, which, upon reflection, was probably the problem.

In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.

He met her eyes. "Even if I'm deep in my head, I still need you, Julie. That's how I knew when I fell in love with you. For the first time in my life I need someone so much I can't turn it off and convince myself otherwise.

You won't do this anymore because I'm telling you that you won't. You belong to someone now. Me. And I take care of you, even if your greatest danger comes from yourself.

Come back to your Master. He's going to fall apart without you in his life. Don't leave me, angel.

the core of addiction doesn't lie in what you swallow or inject—it's in the pain you feel in your head. Yet we have built a system that thinks we will stop addicts by increasing their pain. "If I had to design a system that was intended to keep people addicted, I'd design exactly the system that we have right now,

I have been around a lot of addiction in my life, and I knew what I was feeling—the addicted person's craving for the thing that numbs their nagging sense of hollowness.

The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug—and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.

Sospecho que todo aquel que haya querido a un drogadicto - y todo el que haya estado alguna vez enganchado a la droga - alberga en su interior el mismo impulso (...). Querrá destruir la adicción. Aniquilar esa dependencia. Asfixiarla con furia. Harry Anslinger no es sino una muestra de lo que sucede con nuestros impulsos mas escondidos cuando a uno se le da poder y licencia para matar.

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I've lived too long as a parasite of my moods.)

He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.

If you leave the line, you leave a gap in the line

We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.