Quotes about Interdependence
We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.
— Paulo Coelho
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
— Henri Nouwen
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
— Dorothy Day
Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
— Desmond Tutu
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
— Henry Cloud
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does
— Anonymous
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
— Desmond Tutu
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
— Jim Rohn
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
— St. Augustine