Quotes About Reciprocity

One can't have something for nothing.

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

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Mma Ramotswe had expected no thanks for what she had done. You helped other people—you just did. Had her van broken down, then she would have hoped that somebody would have done the same for her, and she thought that they would.

We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

We are never quits towards those who have done us a favour,' said Dantès. 'Even when one ceases to owe them money, one owes them gratitude.

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

If you nurture Life, Life will nurture you.

But he had no doubt that any inconvenience felt by Delamater would be redirected his way, ten-fold. And that would be very, very bad.

We must give the very thing that we want. That's worth repeating. We must give the very thing that we want. If you want money, give money. If you want love, give love. If you want recognition, give recognition. Whatever you have not, that's what you must give and contribute.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.