Quotes About Reciprocity

You can make friends by being honest, and you can keep them by being steadfast. You must keep in mind that friends worth having will in the long run expect as much from you as they give to you.

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.

I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

existe la tendencia a creer que es el otro el que «nos da» su amor. Sin embargo, en la práctica, el otro sólo es un espejo del amor que damos. Desde este punto de vista amar es encontrar al ser que es capaz de reflejar el amor que irradiamos.

Hanya orang bodoh yang mau meminjamkan bukunya, tetapi hanya orang gila yang mau mengembalikan buku yang sudah dia pinjam.

Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

I love loyalty, and I love paying back my end of loyalty, you know what I'm saying? I love making it full circle.

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

You will get return the same things which you are giving to others.

Aku tak jadi kaya karena pemberiannya. Mereka pun tak jadi kaya karena pemberianku. Itulah kebijaksanaan.

Manusia terlalu sering bertepuk hanya sebelah tangan.

Bukan aku saja yang tergenggam oleh mereka, mereka sebaliknya pun tergenggam olehku. Genggam-menggenggamlah, kalau tak dapat dikatakan sihir-menyihir.