146 Quotes About Dependence

The less you cling to something, the less fear you have of losing that something or someone. The less fear you have, the more love you have. It is true that you love even more when you let go of the need for it. Love grows when grief goes. Make your love stronger than your fear. Strive to make your love greater than your need and let love be the most powerful force in your life. Then nothing can overcome you.

The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.

I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace status, polishing the memories carefully until they shine. The need to record my life is as fundamental as my need to breathe. Without MyFace, I'm floating. I have nothing to anchor me down, to prove I exist.

Like walking in the darkness--When you walk there long enough,You adjust to it. You forget how dark it is.Then, a glimpse of day! How bright he is!Illuminating everything,My love, my life, my light.But all too soon the curtain fallsBringing back the darkened night.Unaccustomed to it now.Where once it was a peaceful place,It seems as dark as dark can be.Never quite as comfortableOn this strange familiar pathFumbling in the dark and watching nowFor new light to help me find my way.

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

In the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help.