Quotes about Interdependence

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world…. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

But the human being is a social creature. We don't merely want companionship, we need it to survive.

Only in restoring the web of connection can we find peace. I'm sure it is possible to heal in a mountaintop cave alone, but for most of us the quickest and deepest healing happens in the embrace of others.

To neglect receiving kindness and help is to isolate oneself, to rob others of opportunity, and to deprive oneself of sustenance. Our example in this is the ultimate Servant Jesus, who came to serve but graciously accepted the service of others—people like His hosts Mary and Martha, the use of the colt He rode into Jerusalem, and others.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

The happiest day of your life will be the day when you realize "we" really is the most important word in the English language.

Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.17

Everything we do, every accomplishment we have, every milestone we pass has come in part because of the efforts of others.

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.