Dependence Quotes - Page 18

• God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Unforgettable, Turns, Completeness

  Bruce Wilkinson (2010). “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life”, p.53, Multnomah

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• Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

  Craig Groeschel

  Christian, Children, Priorities

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• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Energy, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Power, Literature, Dependence On Others

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Grateful, Light, Self

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• We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Benefits, World

  "3 Keys to Lasting Happiness" by Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Heart, Boys

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.635, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

  James Madison

  Lying, Angel, Men

  Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.308, Madison & Adams Press

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• If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Order, Eels

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

  Paul Brunton

  Crush, Doors, Grace

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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• I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Debt, People, Revolution

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

  Fred Rogers

  Confused, Love Is, People

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

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• What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Love Life, Sacrifice

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• Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Declaration

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• His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

  Freya North

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Two, Ephemeral, Emotion

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, People

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 16, 2014

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• Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

  Ilchi Lee

  Energy, Flow, Language

  Ilchi Lee (2002). “Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive”, p.49, Healing Society

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Primitive Man

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• Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

  Paul Kurtz

  Ignorance, Caring, Keys

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• Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Attitude, Independent, Men

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.

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• A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Economic, Nations, Idleness

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• Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

  Stella Benson

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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