Quotes about Interdependence

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship.

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

As you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence.