Quotes About Reciprocity

pack for my trip." I find that when I ask for help, I am likely to receive it.

talking to him this morning had been like taking that first bite of an orange. That first sip of black, black coffee. He listened as though she mattered precisely as much as he did. How disorienting this quality was to encounter in a man.

I don't get angry. I get even.

It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.

if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you.

If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.

If you love without evoking love in return—that is, if your loving as loving does not produce reciprocal love; if through a living expression of yourself as a loving person you do not make yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent— a misfortune.

An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again, and there is love.