Quotes About Mutuality

male/female sexual/gender complementarity.

We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

You save your love for the things that can love you back.

save your love for the things that can love you back.

I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her.

Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

The dream of nature is a complex web of mutuality in which each part supports the other.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

Each thing is what it is only through everything else.

She remembered her granny telling her, "Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work." Hell, Saroya could take a lesson from Granny Peirce!

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

Respect is not a one way street

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

Simplicity is the best strategy. Reciprocity is the best policy.

What is in our hearts is never a one-way street. Only as children when we're too young to understand the signs do we love unrequitedly. If you love, it's because you feel its power reflected back on you.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

Every relationship is one of give and take.