Quotes About Reciprocity

But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?

You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.

While working hard for my career, I looked after my family and have been there for my mother and in-laws when they needed me around. They reciprocated in kind with their unconditional love and support for my career.

Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

One of the organizing principles of gentrified thinking is to assess everyone based on what they can do for you, and then treat them accordingly.

One gets paid back in the way one deserves.

Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn has noted the following: Every culture has a concept of murder, distinguishing this from execution, killing in war and other justifiable homicides. The notions of incest and other regulations upon sexual behavior, the prohibitions on untruth under defined circumstances, of restitution and reciprocity, of mutual obligations between parents and children—these and many other moral concepts are altogether universal.17

Human nature reciprocates positive emotion, and when you bring something real out, you invite others to follow.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." —THE SHOOTIST

If we treat people inhumanely, we should never be surprised when they return the favor.

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

Every time you get something, give something away.

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas