Quotes About Reciprocity

Flowers make themselves fragrant and offer nectar. Why? To nourish the bees or to get themselves pollinated? Or both? In nature, to get you have to give. There is no charity. There is no exploitation, neither selfishness nor selflessness. One grows by helping others grow. Is that not the perfect society?

Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.

yagna, which involved exchange, giving in order to get,

One of his central commands is a commonplace of ancient philosophy, and is a conclusion at which most world religions eventually arrive: 'whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them' – what has come to be known as the Golden Rule.18

When we received forgiveness instead of judgment, we too were made ready to forgive each other. What God did to us, we then owed to others. The more we received, the more we were able to give; and the more meager our love for one another, the less we were living by God's mercy and love.

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.

Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life

The idea of life is to give and receive.

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

Quand j'étais petite, je gardais les vaches; maintenant ce sont elles qui me gardent…