Quotes about Interdependence

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. One is an extension of the other. It's impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. The branch isn't connected only at the moment of bearing fruit. The gardener doesn't keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine. No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine. Separation means certain death.

Human beings are like some plants. If we pause a few seconds in our journey, we begin setting down roots, tendrils that entangle other people as we ourselves are entangled.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

On the contrary, all the more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary. 1 Corinthians 12:22

A person cannot be whole in a relationship where he or she feels powerless to make healthy choices.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.