Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

Every relation forms its own defined and non-defined rules.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

No one who cooks cooks alone.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone