Quotes About Dependency

But to depend on another psychologically—to depend on another emotionally—what does that imply? It means to depend on another human being for my happiness. Think about that. Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing, whether you're aware of it or not, is demanding that other people contribute to your happiness.

Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

Y qué es un apego? Es un estado emocional de vinculación compulsiva a una cosa o persona determinada, originado por la creencia de que sin esa cosa o persona

Una adicción es una incapacidad de colonizar el futuro y, en cuanto tal, realiza una transgresión de las primeras preocupaciones con las que deben lidiar reflexivamente los individuos.

I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.

Judith set up Colin with his chambers and she got him into the States. It's her house they live in and her wealth that keeps their three children in private school. And God help him if he steps out of line. She's the one who wears the trousers in that relationship.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula.

All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

I was a functional addict.

Any institution that distributes the resources men and women depend upon for survival can exert control over them: the occasion of giving vitally needed assistance can easily become the occasion of inculcating the work ethic, for example, and of enforcing work itself, for those who resist risk the withdrawal of that assistance.

He found her under my care," she protested. "I have done everything for her. But for me she should have starved in the streets." Here the Indian gentleman lost his temper. "As to starving in the streets," he said, "she might have starved more comfortably there than in your attic.

I wanted to know what he thought about my loving a man whose bills were being paid by another woman.

We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.

in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6). We can choose to be self-sufficient or to rely on God. We can act on our own understanding regarding life's circumstances, or we can seek God's will in every situation. But only one choice assures us that God will direct our paths.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.