Quotes About Reciprocity

Do not ever try and deprive another of any joy. If you do, you deprive yourself. When the ship comes in for your friend, it comes in for you also.

They have to pay. Revenge sounds so… Cahill, Amy said. Not revenge, Dan said. Justice.

Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face." "A very old Jewish proverb.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

La amistad es una vía de dos direcciones.

la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

I'm loyal to you, too, because you have been kind to me and I won't return hurt for kindness.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

As breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next, so sensory perception entails a like reciprocity, exploring the moss with our fingers while feeling the moss touching us back, at one moment gazing the mountains and at the next feeling ourselves seen, or sensed, from that distance Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

The world and I reciprocate one another. The landscape as I directly experience it is hardly a determinate object; it is an ambiguous realm that responds to my emotions and calls forth feelings from me in turn.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

What was the right thing to do? Was that the best you were capable of doing? Would you want to be treated the same way if the situation were reversed?