Quotes About Reciprocity

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

Love insists the loved loves back

Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

When you send out real love, real love will return to you.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

Nobody is completely self-made; return the favors and good fortune.

It was weak to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Rather, you should do unto others as you feared they were going to do unto you. Better to preemptively strike than to let "them" get you first.

Vengeful and grateful feelings appear to have evolved precisely because they are such useful tools for helping individuals create cooperative relationships, thereby reaping the gains from non-zero-zum games.

It seems to take more than just a high level of social intelligence to get reciprocal altruism going. It takes the sort of gossiping, punitive, moralistic community that emerged only when language and weaponry made it possible for early humans to take down bullies and then keep them down with a shared moral matrix.43

She pays him in his own coin.

But admiration is not love. Love wants proximity, reciprocity, the acceptance of vulnerability. Love alone does not say what we spend our lives saying, all the time, to everyone: 'I am worth more than you.' Love has other ways of finding reassurance, another authority that doesn't come from above but below.

El cuerpo no era un recinto sagrado, era un bien comunitario que se podía obsequiar por gratitud o compañerismo.

Natural justice is a covenant for mutual benefit, to not harm one another or be harmed.

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!