Quotes of Interdependence - somelinesforyou

“ The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. ”

- Carl Schurz

“ We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts. ”

- Pema Chödrön

“ We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all. ”

- Edwin Markham

“ We seek not rest but transformation.We are dancing through each other as doorways. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness. ”

- Hildegard Of Bingen

“ We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Henry Reed

“ If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ”

- Jeremy Bentham

“ In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. ”

- Bob Black

“ Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get, the more you feel like giving. ”

- Penelope Leach

“ The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ”

- Osho

“ Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Interdependency follows independence. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We must love one another or die. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. ”

- David Bohm
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