Quotes About Reciprocity

If we made such good use of animals, eating them, singing about them, drawing them, riding them, and dreaming about them, what do they get back from us?

Performance is currency in the deep world's gift economy

I am deserving of no gifts. That is so. But you must recall, Severian, that when a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but payment.

Cuando los regalos se merecen, son un pago, no un regalo

One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.

It was a question whether gratitude which refers to what is done for one's self ought not to give way to indignation at what is done against another

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

Just because someone isn't allowing you to pay for the date, it doesn't mean you can't contribute on some level. For example, if someone took you for dinner and a movie, they may have paid for the dinner, they may have paid for the movie tickets, but then you buy the popcorn.

The point is that both people involved understand they are using one another to improve their access to resources, broaden their professional connections, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

But just remember, the world has a way of balancing out: when someone is given back, something else must be taken away.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you," Tamra informed the kehok.

That is when I realize that I have the same gift he does: We can give each other back our youth.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

Whatever I give to others, I am giving to myself.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.