Quotes About Reciprocity

Si solamente hablases cuando alguien te preguntase, y si la otra persona siempre esperase que fueses tú quien iniciases la conversación, nunca nadie diría nada.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.

Payback was always hell, wasn't it?

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.

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

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Love poured out multiplies love poured in.

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

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

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 hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours 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.

Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

If the Epic of Gilgamesh carries a teaching, it is that the other makes our existence possible.

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.