Quotes About Mutuality

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You're just as new to me as I am you." --Andrew

You're the mirror, I am your image...

Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Employees today want to know, "What do you want from me today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this year? And what do you have to offer me in return today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this year?

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The interwovenness of our lives is the source of our solidarity. But it also lies at the root of our mutual harm.

We are related to each other. By taking care of you, I take care of myself. By taking care of myself, I take care of you. Happiness and safety are not individual matters.

If there is one truism about life, surely it is that we are inextricably and inescapably together.

Given that no one is born into this world without others, that one's ability to think requires language learned from others, and that one's cognitive and emotional experiences are shaped by thoughts and feelings about others, thinkers began to argue that individualistic approaches miss the mark. What is fundamental is not an isolated self but rather a kind of brute fact that just is—the reality of being in the world with others. Who we are is who we are with others.

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. [...] There is no being; there is only inter-being.

A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.

No one can be by himself or herself alone. We have to inter-be, connected with everyone and everything else.

I'm not really crazy about all this tit-for-tat stuff. I'm always asked to be the one to first give up the tit.

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

A strong man does not need a silent wife.

Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.

hoard too—but the striking fact is that we share at all.22 Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

May their having each other make more of them both.