“There’s not a single person on this planet who can navigate everything by themselves. We’re in this life together, tethered to each other, fumbling and trying to find our way—and we all need help sometimes. We aren’t meant to go at it alone. And you aren’t meant to struggle in silence.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com
“Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com
“A dependence is, I think, a wretched state and you have enough if you will manage it right.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent as your circumstances will admit and to be so, is to exert yourself in the management of your estate. If you do not no one else will.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is great…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Up until the point when I went into treatment, I'd never asked for help from anybody. I would rather not have known the answer than have to ask you for help. That's why treatment was fascinating for me. They deliberately put in your path as many things as they could that required you to ask someone…”— Eric Clapton, esquire.com
“She's a pure narcissist, so helping her victims is only about gaining their appreciation and dependence.”— Randy Huggins, imdb.com
“finding comfort in a person, is healthy. being dependent on that person as your sole source of comfort? unhealthy.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which ar…”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”— Ibn Taymiyyah, goodreads.com
“Why do people need other people so much? Why can’t we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“How much of your life, the life you know, is actually your own? We all do things for others, stretching out limbs like thigmotropic plant clinging to the structure of another to both give and receive life-sustaining supplements. But what do we do for ourselves that we do not do for others?What momen…”— Stephanie (Student), amazon.com
“Love makes you dependent; pain pushes you to the breaking point of self-actualization.”— Kim, amazon.com