A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).
To love means you also trust.
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.
There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.
There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
We live by reposing trust in each other.
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love
Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.
You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.
