Quotes about Interdependence

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Then they were together so that as the hand on the watch moved, unseen now, they knew that nothing could ever happen to the one that did not happen to the other, that no other thing could happen more than this; that this was all and always; this was what had been and now and whatever was to come. This, that they were not to have, they were having.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Adam means "human." Eve means "life." A human needs another for "life" to come alive and become living. Identity can't grow ferally, only communally. We were meant to eat together, not solo. Eve's solitary eating is what got her in trouble.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

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

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.