Quotes About Mutuality

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

Politics is not a game. It exists to resolve the largest questions of the society—the agreed-upon terms by which everyone can live peaceably with one another. At its best politics creates and sustains social relationships—the human conversation and engagement that draw people together and allow them to discover their mutuality.2

One cannot always consider, Tit for Tat, in an ugly and antagonistic sense since mutual Sex and Kissing, in whatever way, outline Tit for Tat automatically as well; however, in a sweet notion.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

When we look at waves in the ocean, we see each one as independent in its formation and at the same time inseparable from the whole. The is no such thing as a wave without the ocean. In the same way we are inseparable from each other and are connected to the whole body of life

The English language doesn't give us many words to describe the feeling of reaching out to someone from another world, and of hav- ing that interest welcomed. Something of its own kind, mutual, is created. What a gift.

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

I need them and they need me to need them

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

True love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

debe insistirse continuamente en que «femenino» y «masculino» no son entidades en sí mismas; no son figuras arquetípicas de una diferenciación absoluta con campos de aplicación fijos y predeterminados. Son términos de una relación continua, que toman su significado el uno del otro: Por ejemplo, conteniendo y emergiendo, recibiendo y actuado, conservando y dinamizando; la base y su diferenciación, el todo y su parte.

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don't have to make sacrifices for you.

Freely given, freely shared, between true companions and friends." That was an old phrase, but Gran had made sure I knew all the old phrases. JoAnn looked—and according to the land, felt—startled. For a long moment, she didn't move, then she smiled again—a little less firmly—and took the bag from me. "The feast increases, with the goodwill of all.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.