Quotes About Mutuality

When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.

Golden Rule: I won't disturb your self-interest, if you don't disturb mine.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

and no one likes to be forced to do anything. In fact, love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

If we made such good use of animals, eating them, singing about them, drawing them, riding them, and dreaming about them, what do they get back from us?

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found among ants, monkeys & ruminants. Impossible, recalcitrant domestics weren't yet in his view or anyone else's.

Mutual INTRIGUE is the key to turning frustrating, waste-of-time, one-way communications into productive, rewarding two-way connections.

It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

Ubuntu—I am because you are, you are because I am…. —A DEEP AFRICAN WAY OF BEING

Although not always simultaneous in taking effect, nor necessarily at all equal in voltage, the process of love is rarely unilateral. When the moment comes, a secret attachment is often returned with interest. Some know this by instinct; others learn in a hard school.

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

Jimmy: When you die, I die Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

Where is it written that I had to tell her and that she couldn't tell me.

Just as we are conceived and born from the lives of others, we must sustain our daily lives with what we receive from others. And we must pay for it by giving of ourselves every single day.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...

We have seen that it is possible to escape the temptations of sadism and masochism when both partners recognize each other as equals; as soon as there is a little modesty and some generosity between men and women, ideas of victory and defeat are abolished: the act of love becomes a free exchange.

La Malédiction qui pèse sur le mariage, c'est que trop souvent les individus s'y rejoignent dans leur faiblesse, non dans leur force, c'est que chacun demande à l'autre au lieu de se plaire à lui donner.