Quotes About Reciprocity

When Filipinos want to express deep appreciation, they say they have an utang na loob—a debt of gratitude.

The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.

A veces uno se fija en alguien sólo porque ese alguien se ha fijado en uno.

love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

What drives my life is not the desire to get along with other people or make friends so much as a moral obligation to give back as much as—no, more than—I take. That's karma. It's really not so far from the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Some

The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based 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 and am still receiving. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Superstars will not give you anything because you deserve it. In their world they are the only ones who deserve anything. They will, however, give a great deal to get something they want. It makes sense, then, to always know what they want and to make Superstars pay for it by giving you what you want.

As the Lakota Sioux phrase Mitakuye Oyasin—"All my relations"—implies, we're all connected, all in this together. Recovery is reciprocal: heal yourself, heal the world; heal the world, heal yourself.

Si la vida te dio un don, tienes que devolverle a la vida un 10%.

If someone imagines that someone loves him, and does not believe he has given any cause for it, he should love in return.

A network takes time to develop. Part comes through the passage of time, part from the way you treat others and part from reciprocity.

I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face ... My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.

Before she came here, she'd thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could -- but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return.

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

L'amitié ni l'amour ne doivent recevoir que ce qu'ils peuvent rendre (37)

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.