Quotes About Mutuality

Somebody once told me that good friends are like Tootie Pops, if you don't bite them they won't bite you. Erin Swift

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

It's all about the energy of exchange.

If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me.There is no gap, no distance.

if I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back.

all ought to be common among friends.

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

Life shouldn't be about arbitrary power, for power's sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

A hug is like a boomerang--you get it back right away.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could. -Aviendha about Rand

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love...

There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Our relationship with the other, be it a thing or an organism, and the other's relationship with us, is what determines our humanity. And this is a timeless (sanatana) truth (satya), a discovery of our ancestors,

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Silence isn't the same when it's shared.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.