Quotes About Reciprocity

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

why should i always have to do the looking?why can't other people do the look out for me?

For a second none of us said anything, and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

Later, it would take me a minute to remember how exactly it happened. If I turned around and moved forward first, or he did. I just knew we didn't meet halfway. It was just a short distance really, not worth squabbling over. And maybe it didn't matter so much whether he took the step or I did. All I knew was that he was there.

Then believe, baby. I promise that if you fall, I will catch you. And I know you'll do the same for me.

When one is tricked into accepting a favor, it feels like a trick, not a favor.

Ma nulla uguagliava il suo piacere quando si ritrovava insieme a lei. E così anche a lei era rimasta la stessa sensazione; anche lei non poteva sottrarsi a quella beata necessità. Come prima si attraevano reciprocamente, con una forza indescrivibile, quasi magica.

We do as we have been done by.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

For example, given that we depend on other people for our well-being and they depend on us, we have certain obligations towards each other; given that we have certain potentials the realization of which is good for us, potentials which require a certain amount of effort to realize, we have a duty to make that effort; and so forth.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.