Co Dependent Sayings

#1. Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

Melody Beattie

#2. We have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we're trying to get on the spiritual path.

Echo Bodine

#3. Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

Terence McKenna

#4. She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#5. It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.

Sophie Kinsella

#6. To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

Berton Averre

#7. If you constantly have to play ombudsman for your beloved, you're in a co-dependent prison of your own making. People will keep doing what they can get away with.

Luvvie Ajayi

#8. I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

Jamie Babbit

#9. Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

Ali Sina

#10. Geez, you guys. I know I'm popular and all, but seriously, you're a bit too co-dependent for me. I'm going to need you to step away from my personal bubble." A wispy vine-woman curled ivy tendrils around his arm, and he sliced through them with his dagger. "No! Bad Wraith! No touchie!

Julie Kagawa

#11. Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#12. The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other.
R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#13. I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

John Wooden

#14. We reject the teaching that the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is dependent upon the exercise of man's free will.

Anonymous

#15. At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

Edvard Munch

#16. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

#17. If we want to survive we will have to change. We must transition from being dependent consumers to becoming responsible producers.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#18. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.

Paul Chappell

#19. Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.

Seth Shostak

#20. For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

Gottfried Leibniz

#21. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.

AVA.

#22. Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Andrew Young

#23. Whatever is dependently co-arisen
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation
Is itself the Middle Way.

Nagarjuna

#24. Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

#25. Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.

Thomas Crum

#26. Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.

Tristram Stuart

#27. I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

Siri Hustvedt

#30. The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.

Stef Wertheimer

#31. The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

E. O. Wilson

#32. We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Jack Lessenberry

#33. The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

John M. McHugh

#34. Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#35. We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

Bruce H. Lipton

#36. DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Brittany Murphy

#38. As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#39. You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

Susan Sarandon

#40. Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Shel Silverstein

#41. The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Leslie White

#42. Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Saint Augustine

#43. Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts ... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

James Bovard

#44. It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas ... And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Terence McKenna

#45. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

Benjamin Carson

#46. The person who is least dependent on the outcome of the relationship will automatically draw the other person in.

Sherry Argov

#47. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.

Edith Hahn Beer

#48. Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation -

Stephen King

#49. In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Viktor E. Frankl

#50. There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs ...

Elliott Smith

#51. Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Catherine The Great

#52. As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

Asif Ali Zardari

#53. See, I am very dependent ... on beauty and peace of the world ... on loyalty of friends ... on love in families ... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all ...

Galina Nelson

#54. My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Byron Katie

#55. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Charles Stanley

#56. Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

John Frusciante

#57. There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#58. The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

Brian Tracy

#59. You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

Rajneesh

#60. You don't even need a computer plugged into the back of your head to be hopelessly dependent on the system.

Russell Eric Dobda