Quotes about Interdependence

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.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

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.

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.