Quotes About Reciprocity

What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by the light of his own Christian viewpoint; he also finds friendship deficient when judged from the perspective of its own self-proclaimed ethical foundations. Thus, Kierkegaard concludes that the reciprocity involved in friendship actually betrays its essential selfishness.

The funny thing I learned about giving is that sometimes the more you give, the more recipients demand. It's like carbo-loading for a marathon. You eat for a purpose, but you find that you want it even more after the race is over.

Non diventi uomo finché non doni il tuo amore sincero e disinteressato ad un bambino. Ma non sei un vero uomo finché non ricevi in cambio l'amore sincero e disinteressato di un bambino.

Some men like you less the more they owe you. Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

One plus one equals both.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

One hand washes the other.

One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet)

Whatever you try to create for another will always boomerang back to you. That includes both loving, helpful, or healing actions and negative, destructive ones. This means, of course, that the more you use creative visualization to love and serve others' as well as your own highest ends, the more love, happiness, and success will just naturally find their way to you.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

We said, to each other, I think, whatever came into our minds—put there by what the other had just said—as if we dropped, one by one, taking turns, those intensely dried paper flowers of my childhood, into a glass of water, and watched them uncurl, fast, uneven, and bright—and tossed another.

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

You shared a very private feeling with me, he said. I have merely returned the compliment.

If he was determined to give, then she would take.

We cannot without depraving our minds endeavour to please a lover or husband but in proportion as he pleases us.

I'd settle for what you had to give