Dependency Quotes

“Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“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.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation

“In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.”
― Tullian Tchividjian

“For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.”
― Alan Cohen

“It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“It can’t be done for you; it must be done by you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“People addicted with technology.
Technology has indulged mankind.
Beware of technology dependency!”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.”
― Albert Marrin

“Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.
الأمية هي التبعية ، وبعثورها على الشجاعة لتعلم القراءة والكتابة ،تقدمًت "هانا" من التبعية إلى الاستقلال ، وهي خطوة ناحية التحرر.”
― Bernhard Schlink

“[E]verything is always in relationship. In fact, you could almost say that everything is made of relationship, in a sense.”
― Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt

“A refusal to grow up is like crouching while pulling others down.”
― Criss Jami

“Dependency is a trap that’s easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Standing on your own two feet creates stability.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Come evidenziato dalla letteratura femminista sull’etica della cura, termini quali dipendenza e vulnerabilità portano ancora lo stigma di connotazioni negative, rinforzando stereotipi culturali di autonomia e individualismo fino a svalutare l’idea stessa di cura. Forse invece è utile ripensare la categoria della dipendenza come una questione umana universale, riconoscendo come tutte e tutti siamo dipendenti nella nostra vita quotidiana da altre persone, da tecnologie, da oggetti, da ambienti materiali costruiti sulla base delle specificità dei nostri corpi e da mille relazioni di ogni tipo. Non si tratta affatto di negare le differenze dei corpi e delle menti, ma di accettare la natura universale della dipendenza e, di converso, attenuare l’insistenza sul mito dell’indipendenza e dell’autonomia come principi fondativi di qualsiasi strategia o politica per la disabilità.”
― Alberto Vanolo, La città autistica

“Do not confuse dependency with love.

Are they there because they truly want you or because they can't survive without you?”
― Chidi Ejeagba, Rethinking Love

“Wanting to die with a dead partner might not be a show of love but more of a show of dependency.”
― Chidi Ejeagba, Rethinking Love

“Love is not synonymous with dependency.

dependency can lead to a loss of individuality and self-sufficiency.”
― Chidi Ejeagba, Rethinking Love

“If you don't have individuality, self-love, independent thoughts, & self-reliance, what do you hope to share with another person?”
― Chidi Ejeagba, Rethinking Love

“Requesting help is beneficial but be careful it doesn’t become an addiction.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Within every organization and community, there exists a quiet but persistent force capable of undermining even the strongest proponents of proactive leadership. This force is learned helplessness; a psychological state that arises when repeated setbacks and seemingly unchangeable circumstances convince individuals and groups that their efforts are futile. When leaders fall prey to this mindset, the impact can be devastating, stifling innovation, discouraging initiative, and trapping organizations or communities in a cycle of complacency and stagnation.”
― George K'Opiyo, Rethinking Leadership in Afria: Reflections on Dependency and Learned Helplessness

“Help people help themselves. Don’t make people dependent on you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”
― Juvenal, The Satires of Juvenal

“The best way to make things hard for people, is to make it too easy for them.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“I bet everyone wants to be held,” I thought. Just wanting to be held can make people hurt each other, and lead them into sexual relationships which they then come to depend on. I just want to be held by someone and feel safe in their arms... how hard could that be...”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Arguing for more government because one has become dependent on government, is like a slave asking for a harsher master.”
― Colin M. McGroarty

“The argument that we must grow government because we have become dependent on government, is the argument of a slave defending slavery.”
― Colin M. McGroarty

“Love should make you more of who you are, not less. If it makes you less, it's not love. It's dependency. And dependency is dangerous.”
― Seethala Devi Chandu, You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go

“If your brand must reference another to be understood, that’s not identity. That’s dependency.”
― Marion Bekoe