Dependence Quotes

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

What matters is your convictions.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero.

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it!

Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself - your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.
There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour along the travel.

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down.

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Living off others is a form of bondage - for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?