Quotes About Reciprocity

Beziehung ist Gegenseitigkeit. Mein Du wirkt an mir, wie ich an ihm wirke. Unsre Schüler bilden uns, unsre Werke bauen uns auf. Der >>Böse<< wird offenbarend, wenn ihn das heilige Grundwort berührt. Wie werden wir von Kindern, wie von Tieren erzogen! Unerforschlich einbegriffen leben wir in der strömenden Allgegenseitigkeit.

What recourse do we have but to be of mutual help to one another and to forgive those who fall, since we ourselves have already fallen or are about to fall?

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, Hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, Stripe for stripe

Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23

What goes around comes around. How true those words were.

No one did me wrong whom I did not pay back in full

the success of the rich was a gift bestowed by the poor. The rich had to learn the lesson that they depended on the people as a whole.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Love is a two way street.

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Love is the reward of love

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Love, and you shall be loved

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Confucius was once asked if there is "one teaching that can serve as a guide for one's entire life." He said that all you really need to know is the word reciprocity: "Do not impose upon others what you yourself do not desire.