Quotes about Interdependence

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.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.