Quotes About Mutuality

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

You like doing that, don't you?' 'Yes, I like kissing you.' 'No,' she said, 'lifting me off my feet. Carrying me around. Pulling me down to kiss you whenever you get the urge.' She turned to him with a mock glare. 'I think it goes hand in hand with the telling me what to do stuff.' He didn't let go of her hand as he lifted his to run the back of one knuckle down her cheek. 'You like it, too.

I don't think any relation can work if one dominates. It has to be an equal relation for it to be successful and happy.

It's nice to have a friend who is also a gracious hostess and who reciprocates.

Coronavirus has shown us how much we depend on one another.

You have to give as good as you get.

One plus one equals both.

The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

We don't need to be perfect. We just need to be perfect for each other.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

If he was determined to give, then she would take.

Nobody ever saw a dog make fair and deliberate exchange of a bone with another dog.

The argument is not that exchange teaches people to be kind; it is that exchange teaches people to recognise their enlightened self-interest lies in seeking cooperation.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

You can only achieve Win/Win solutions with Win/Win processes—the end and the means are the same.

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

For Win/Win to work, the systems have to support it.

Most of life is an interdependent, not an independent, reality.