Quotes About Reciprocity

It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service. Now

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past," he remembered the Don lecturing him. "You must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future

It has been said that you cannot give what you do not have, but it is also true that you cannot keep what you have without giving it away.

Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.

For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.

When, over the following months, Minta Randall found that Eustace apparently reciprocated her profoundest and most secret feelings, she thought she had never lived before, or knew what life could hold, or what absolute power one heart could exert upon another. She perceived no trace, fossil, or echo of this wild sensation anywhere around her, and concluded that she and Eustace had invented it together, which would be, she thought, just like them.

Violence makes violence

Although not always simultaneous in taking effect, nor necessarily at all equal in voltage, the process of love is rarely unilateral. When the moment comes, a secret attachment is often returned with interest. Some know this by instinct; others learn in a hard school.

Usluga je stvar koja se najteže vra?a.

Each lady was disposed to get as much and to give as little as possible —

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.

Grace Paley once described the male-female writer phenomenon to me by saying, "Women have always done men the favor of reading their work, but the men have not returned the favor.

Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself.

Where is it written that I had to tell her and that she couldn't tell me.

My brother and I don't think much of each other, you get the picture? May God repay me for all the things I've done for him.

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Just as we are conceived and born from the lives of others, we must sustain our daily lives with what we receive from others. And we must pay for it by giving of ourselves every single day.

Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.

If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.

You saved my life, Fixie. To repay you that is impossible. Just know that from now on I owe you everything.

Are you quite finished? It's your turn to listen for just as long as you've ... instructed me. Hear me out, then judge me on the facts.