Quotes About Mutuality

Progressing means putting others before yourself and in turn, they'll put you before themselves.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.

Mr. Weir knew at once that I was really interested and came half-way to meet me. When people go half-way to meet each other something happens—something important." "Yes—but what is it?" I ask with interest. "You give a bit of yourself and receive a bit of the other fellow, and you're both richer.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

When they say my name, I want them to say the Phoenix Mercury and vice versa. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I don't know where he begins and where I end, but maybe that's the glory of who we've become. We begin and end together. We're a puzzle that fits perfectly together, where we fit nowhere else. And right now we're seeking peace in the only place we know to look—each other.

When power becomes the goal over service, self-interest over public interest, conflicts of interest over the common good, winning and losing over mutuality and compromise, and personal narcissism over shared benefit, we are headed for deep trouble. Autocratic behavior becomes more acceptable and even admired by people who are already subject to anxiety and anger. And before long, the road to authoritarian rule is a threat to freedom.

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

May she share everything with her husband, including the housework.

Being independent doesn't mean that you don't need love and enjoy the give and take dynamics in a relationship.

Don't waste your time on a person who is not willing to waste their time on you.

Relationships require two people not just one person making all the effort to make it work.

Before pursuing a new relationship, you should never look for someone to complete you, a relationship consists of two whole individuals, look for someone complimentary... not supplementary.

Some people have so many requirements they seek from a person and want to know what all they have to offer, but yet they fail to actually look at themselves and question what do I have to offer in return.

One thing that we must all learn when pursuing relationships is that we must commit to someone who is choosing to honor our commitment with the same intensity level.

RELATIONSHIPS are being BUILT by TWO people NOT ONE.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

Communication is only possible between equals.

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

True friendship can exist only between equals.