#dependence

In families like Fred's, much of a child's identity and his illusions of safety depend on feeling enmeshed. He develops a need to be a part of other people and to have them be a part of him. He can't stand the thought of being cast out. This need for enmeshment carries right into adult relationships. ↗

— Susan Forward

#family

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days. ↗

— Carol Ryrie Brink

#history #independence-day #past #family

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul. ↗

— Donna Goddard

#friendship-and-love #independence #maturity #popularity #soul

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#materialism #simplicity #change

...when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you... ↗

— John Geddes

#bookmark #dependence #love #pause #selah

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#liberty #men

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

#inspirational #love #inspirational

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#inspirational #interdependence #salvation #inspirational

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#borrowing #card #children #enjoy #give