Quotes About Reciprocity

To give the devil his due.

Paid him in his own coin.

What goes around comes around (as in your thoughts coming around into more of those things you don't like).

Respecte la terre, et elle te respectera. Travaille-la, elle te le rendra au centuple.

Don't do it for yourself, do it for someone, and someday, someone else does it to you, karma's real.

This regularity and balance of nature inspired the population to adopt a culture of order and duty based on cosmic order: Maat. This idea extends to the understanding of Divine justice and reciprocity. So if work is performed on time and in cooperation with nature, there will be order, balance and peace as well as prosperity in life.

The binary code of human behavior is based on the reciprocity algorithm: justice, guilt, conscience.

Giving and taking is the law of any relationship, when you are all standing on the same ground. In terms of power or control.

Love cannot exist when the chain of give-and-take is broken.

Nature loves us so much. But like all strong love, it has to be paid back one way or another. The pleasure must be balanced with the pain inflicted.

The concept of the black and white people boils down to: No light without darkness—You depend on each other!

You can give something and get it back in a different way, without asking for anything in exchange.

You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.

There's nothing wrong with caring for the people we love; the problem only comes when it's one person giving all the time. When it goes both ways, you have love.

You kiss my scars and I kiss yours. Fair?

Yet, kindness always pays back because giving is the payback.

You give before you get.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

I'd say the way to look at it is this. You took a lot of trouble answering letters from a stranger, and maybe some of them were rather stupid questions. I wouldn't know. The fact is that you made a friend, and now this friend's going to a little bit of trouble to help you. That's fair enough. Look at it that way.

Therefore, to give is to receive. You cannot give what you do not have and you have only what you believe. So to believe a state as true of another not only awakens that state within the other but it makes it alive within you. You are what you believe.

Do to others what you would have them do to you.

I have their letters in front of me, three from Priscilla and one from Winnie. Together, they dramatise the proverb: 'When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.