Quotes About Mutuality

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Friendship first, competition second.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

I need them and they need me to need them

Friendship buys friendship.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Before you complain about what I don't do for you, ask yourself if you're doing it for me.

You don't have to go along when others act unfairly or unreasonably. If you do go along, make it clear that you are doing them a favor—and that you expect something in return.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus

Love must not be supplied more or less than it's demand but must be supplied in equilibrium with demand of the other.

I love you if you love me.

How do we learn to give from the heart in such a way that giving feels like receiving? When things are being done in a human way, I don't think you can tell the giver from the receiver. It's only when we interact with one another in what I call a judging, or judgmental, manner, that giving isn't much fun.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Spirit is not in the I but between I and You.