Quotes about Interdependence

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other

Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.

"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Love creates an us without destroying a me.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Indeed, sometimes when people are locked up by themselves they quite literally go mad. Without human society, they don't know who they are anymore. It seems that we humans were designed to find our purpose and meaning not simply in ourselves and our own inner lives, but in one another and in the shared meanings and purposes of a family, a street, a workplace, a community, a town, a nation.