Quotes About Reciprocity

Because if we were each as identical as twins, I would scratch your face to say the scratch set you apart and made you more interesting, and gave you a purpose in life: to scratch me back a thousand times.

What we give to our community in pennies, our communities give back to us in dollars.

Giving is taking is giving.

Always owe somebody something, then he will be forever praying God to grant you a good, long and blessed life. Fearing to lose what you owe him, he will always be saying good things about you in every sort of company; he will be constantly acquiring new lenders for you, so that you can borrow to pay him back, filling his ditch with other men's spoil.

It's not that we owe "society." If there is any notion of "society" here—and it's not clear that there is—society is our debts.

Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.

Swapping one thing directly for another while trying to get the best deal one can out of the transaction is, ordinarily, how one deals with people one doesn't care about and doesn't expect to see again. What reason is there not to try to take advantage of such a person?

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Reciprocity is not mandatory.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

Put good energy out. Get good energy back.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

The more you give, the more good things come to you.