Dependent Quotes

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Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.… — Charles Bukowski
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an… — Mahatma Gandhi
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our… — Desmond Tutu
A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter — Gary L. Thomas
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty… — Mahatma Gandhi
What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person… — Jennifer Baumgardner
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot. — Witold Gombrowicz
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she… — George Eliot
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
The kind of hope that I often think aboutâ€¦I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we… — Vaclav Havel
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… — Yukio Mishima
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and… — John Piper
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that… — Bernhard Schlink
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does… — J M Coetzee
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with… — David O. McKay

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