Interdependence quotes

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

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

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Men exist for the sake of one another.