Quotes About Mutuality

the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

To love does not mean to surrender, dissolve, and merge with another person. It is the noble opportunity for an individual to ripen, to become something in and of himself. To become a world in response to another is a great immodest challenge that has sought him out and called him forth.

If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

noncompetitively

What we understand and love understands and loves us also.

Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself.

Credit is an entire thing. Every part of it has the nicest sympathy with every other part. Wound one limb and the whole tree shrinks and decays.

You go your way I'll go your way too

The children declared that they would never speak of 'I' but only of 'we.' "2

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~

If the Epic of Gilgamesh carries a teaching, it is that the other makes our existence possible.

For I am you and you are I.

Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one…

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.