Quotes About Reciprocity

Not giving is no different than taking.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

She was in breach of that feminine law that states that no weakness may be shown by a woman to another woman without a sacrifice of equal value being made in return.

I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

I can forget injuries, but never benefits.

Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give

A poem reaches out exactly halfway, then you reach out halfway, then see what happens. If your thinking's willful and generous toward a poem, the poem'll be equally those things back. As for meaning, it'll mean something different to each person.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.

Saying of the Prophet Reflection The Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Dar y Tomar El Patrón toma menos de lo que le es dado Y da más de lo que ha tomado

El conocimiento no da nada a un hombre hasta que él no se lo haya dado todo.

Give and Take The Chief takes less than he is given And gives more than he has taken.

Contemplación para alcanzar amor. Primero conviene advertir en dos cosas. La primera es que el amor se debe poner más en las obras que en las palabras. La segunda: el amor consiste en comunicación de las dos partes, es a saber, en dar y comunicar el amante al amado lo que tiene, o de lo que tiene o puede, y así, por el contrario, el amado al amante. De manera que si el uno tiene ciencia, dar al que no la tiene, si honores, si riquezas, y así el otro al otro.

All beings are made up of LifeParticles, and ceaselessly interact and communicate on this deeper level of reality. Through this connection, all beings affect and reflect each other. Whatever we do, we do to ourselves. Whatever comes out of us comes back.

When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

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

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.