Quotes about Interdependence

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it.

When two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that each of us is limited in our capacity to be for another what is needed, and learned to forgive each other for not being God.

Friendship and love cannot develop in the form of an anxious clinging to each other.

We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.

When you heed only your lion, you will find yourself overextended and exhausted. When you take notice only of your lamb, you will easily become a victim of your need for other people's attention.

When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us.

To live and serve and worship with others thereby brings us to a place where we come together and remind each other by our mutual interdependence that we are not God, that we cannot meet our own needs, and that we cannot completely fulfill each other's needs.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.