Quotes About Mutuality

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

It becomes a burden if you lean on him too much. He is only human, and he has his own problems. Show him that you'll be an equal partner, which means that you also have something to contribute.

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

None shall part us from each other,One in life and death are we:All in all to one another—I to thee and thou to me!Thou the tree and I the flower—Thou the idol; I the throng—Thou the day and I the hour—Thou the singer; I the song!

I've decided that mixing is a key term. It's better than suggestion, which is one-sided. It explains what people rarely talk about, because we define ourselves as isolated, closed bodies who bump up against each other but stay shut. Descartes was wrong. It isn't: I think, there I am. It's: I am because you are. That's Hegel - well, the short version.

Martin Buber believed that the foundation for human existence is relational. People can create between-zones of resonant meaning. In a letter to Ludwig Binswanger, the Swiss psychiatrist, he wrote, "Dialog in my sense implies the necessity of the unforeseen, and its basic element is surprise, the surprising mutuality." Isn't this what happens when I hear the words spoken to me in the room as alive, not dead. Isn't it always a surprise?

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Aunque en el barrio negro siempre había muestras de generosidad, practicarla entrañaba el dolor del sacrificio. Fuera lo que fuese lo que un negro diera a otro, casi seguro que el donante lo necesitaba tan urgentemente como el donatario. Eso hacía que el dar y recibir constituyera entre ellos un intercambio fructífero.

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determined by race, class, sexuality, religion, or nationality.

Cuando admitamos que el amor verdadero se basa en el reconocimiento y la aceptación, que ese amor se construye sobre la gratitud, el cuidado, la responsabilidad, el compromiso y el conocimiento mutuo, entenderemos que no puede haber amor sin justicia.

Quand on parvient à s'aimer vraiment, on attire à soi les bonnes personnes, et le bon niveau d'échange et de complicité se crée. C'est l'association de deux êtres indépendants, qui peuvent d'autant plus s'aimer qu'ils n'ont pas besoin l'un de l'autre pour le quotidien.

Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 11:11).

So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.

You don't ever let a man say 'My way or nothing' to you. Not even a good man. Not even my son. And you never say 'My way or nothing' to him. You don't take your sweetheart's love and use it on him. You can do that to your mama, but not your sweetheart." I smiled at that.

When a person gave less, he required less in return.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.