Quotes About Being Dependent

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

Joseph P. Kauffman

#2. 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

#3. Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent on
circumstances in this life.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.

Edward L. Bernays

#5. I did not like being dependent on others, found it hard to trust them, and was very inept at expressing my feelings.

Marie Kondo

#6. I'd learned that loving someone, being in love with someone, and being dependent upon someone are three separate things.

Rae Hachton

#7. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.

Gautama Buddha

#8. I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

Alice Englert

#9. All people believe in America, jobs, creating energy here, not being dependent on foreign energy sources.

Lynn Jurich

#10. I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

Steve Southerland

#11. I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

Edward De Bono

#12. So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to give birth without being dependent on somebody else. This isn't the case at all.

Michel Odent

#13. Enjoy the Bliss of just Being ... Without being dependent on anything!-RVM

R.v.m.

#14. The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Marsha Blackburn

#15. Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow; at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

Shani Davis

#17. In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

Bruce Lee

#18. Love is being dependent on another, in life and spirit. That's a rare blessing, isn't it?" Don

Viola Shipman

#19. The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.

Lloyd Blankfein

#20. External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.

Jeff Fisher

#21. With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

Helen Slater

#22. It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Seth Godin

#24. In another sense he is "being itself," in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity and simplicity that underlies and sustains the diversity of finite and composite things.

David Bentley Hart

#25. Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

William Blackstone

#26. Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Giacomo Casanova

#27. I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

Russell Means

#28. There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear ... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity ... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Chogyam Trungpa

#29. Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.

John C. Broger

#30. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

E.B. White

#31. By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a 'child', of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good

John Holt

#32. I believe, though I'm not sure, once you are an adult, and come back to the home of your parents to live, for some odd reason, you're reduced to being a child again, and dependent. Her parents tug her one way - and we pull her another way -

V.C. Andrews

#33. The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

Richard G. Wilkinson

#34. Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

Amy Ryan

#35. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people
first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Albert Einstein

#36. In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Aldous Huxley

#37. Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Mark Vonnegut

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

Nagarjuna

#39. Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night.

Audre Lorde

#40. It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

Horace Walpole

#41. The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

Lee L Jampolsky

#42. Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#43. Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

Shia Labeouf

#44. The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Auliq Ice

#45. When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

Kirsten Dunst

#46. Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.

David Perlmutter

#47. My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

Ben Hewitt

#48. You go through life looking for a teacher and then when you find him, you become so dependent on him that you grow to hate him. Or else you wait for him to show his weakness and then you despise him for being human.

Erica Jong

#49. An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.

Tichina Arnold

#50. Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

David Suzuki

#51. On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#52. Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

Beverly Engel

#53. I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

Sam Shepard

#54. My greatness is not dependent on it being understood by others. My greatness lies in the acceptance of none other than myself.

Denika Carothers

#55. This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are
dependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after all
sense-impressions as much as "realities" are, in the class of "phenomena dependent
on brain-changes.

S.L. MacGregor Mathers

#56. All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.

George Perkins Marsh

#57. There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

Louis O. Kelso

#58. The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#59. It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Malcolm Cowley

#60. Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

Oswald Chambers

#61. Because being so dependent on people scares me.

Melina Marchetta

#62. You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A.S. Byatt

#63. We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#64. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Betty Smith

#65. Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Rod Blagojevich

#66. A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.

Ryu Murakami

#67. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?

Matt Shea

#68. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

#69. The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books ... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.

Terence Cooke

#70. Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.

Michael Klare

#71. Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it.

Ilchi Lee

#72. It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#73. Indeed, being an artist is not just a job but an identity dependent on a broad range of extracurricular intelligences.

Sarah Thornton

#74. I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

Andrew Sullivan

#75. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#76. Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.

Ed Buckner

#77. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

Harold Brodkey

#78. Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

Noah Levine

#79. Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Rafael Cruz

#80. Optimal functioning of the immune system, it turns out, is dependent upon feeling good.

Marcey Shapiro

#81. There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

Marshall Brickman

#82. First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.

Rajneesh

#83. There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.

Anonymous

#84. The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.

Edward T. Welch

#85. The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

R.C. Sproul

#86. There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.

Ted Cruz

#87. I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.

Nora Ephron

#88. We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.

G.K. Chesterton

#89. We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Satish Kumar

#90. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Oswald Chambers

#91. The worst part about being so small is that I always have to rely on someone. I can't go anywhere on my own, so I'm always dependent. I can't run or walk too fast. If I was taller for a day, I'd just go off on my own independently.

Jyoti Amge

#92. Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

Sam Shepard

#93. The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

Candace Bushnell

#94. What was driving you was the trajectory of Well-Being. What was driving you was the understanding that you weren't born to be dependent on someone else. And you did not come to use someone else as your excuse for not being in alignment.

Wayne W. Dyer

#95. Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Rod Blagojevich

#96. Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Lucretius