Quotes About Reciprocity

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

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

debe insistirse continuamente en que «femenino» y «masculino» no son entidades en sí mismas; no son figuras arquetípicas de una diferenciación absoluta con campos de aplicación fijos y predeterminados. Son términos de una relación continua, que toman su significado el uno del otro: Por ejemplo, conteniendo y emergiendo, recibiendo y actuado, conservando y dinamizando; la base y su diferenciación, el todo y su parte.

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

I hate talking when there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a return of confidence from me.

When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.

Play is learning how to wait, how to applaud someone else's success, how to let others go first. It's reciprocity and laughter. It's very simple and it brings us deeply into the Now, and just for a while, maybe for the rest of the day, you don't have to judge yourself or kill anyone.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

It makes absolutely no sense to make sacrifices for a group that, itself, isn't willing to make sacrifices for you.

It makes absolutely no sense to make sacrifices for a group that, itself, isn't willing to make sacrifices for you. That is the position American soldiers have been in for the past decade and a half. There

An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don't have to make sacrifices for you.

The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back to him . . ." —Walt Whitman