Quotes About Reciprocity

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

and paid back the welfare department for the financial help they gave me.

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make...

With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determined by race, class, sexuality, religion, or nationality.

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. In any country almost empty of men, 'love thy neighbour' is less a pious injunction than a rule for survival. If you meet one in trouble, you stop — another time he may stop for you.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

When you give people something for nothing for awhile and then try to sell them some of that same thing, consciously or not, they resent it.

I've given this a great deal of thought and what I've realized is that revenge doesn't have to be an eye for an eye. Retaliation can take any number of forms. It doesn't need to be crude or obvious. The point is, the pain should be equivalent; not tit for tat but something comparable.

He had fought for me when i needed it.And I had to fight for him when he couldn't fight for himself.Perhaps that was the meaning of friendship.Perhaps the only true one.

I'd heard August say more than once, If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.

What I'd loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself

in this world, if you give nothing out, you get nothing back

Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...

All who read us are read.

When a person gave less, he required less in return.

Conversation, which is supposed to be a two-way street, is treated by many people as if it were a divided highway. They may acknowledge that traffic must go in both directions, but speed independently on their own way, expecting you to do the same on your side. If

if it wasn't good for the goose, the gander could damn well do without too.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.