Dependency on Others Quotes

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.