Quotes About Reciprocity

Do unto others as others have done to you.

I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you I said, but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

I'm taking your eye first, in case you want mine too.

Once, I was up north with friends and, after dinner, one lady who was at the table said, 'Would you sing for me?' and I went 'Well, sure.' And the other women are looking and going, 'You never sing for us.' Well, you never ask me.

Man is present in all things, and all things are present in man.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

You know what the Indians say. You saved my life, now you've got to—" "Yeah, yeah, some hippie made that up.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Yet he hadn't asked for anything that he hadn't been willing to give himself. - Mahri

Our invitation to community, which we read at the beginning of our gatherings, includes this important line: "At The Refuge, everyone gives, everyone receives.

When you mention someone both of you have in common, all of a sudden the person you're calling has an obligation not only to you but also to the friend or associate you just mentioned.

3. Don't come to the party empty-handed. Who are the stars of today's digital world? Those writers, bloggers, and gurus who do the best job of providing information, creative content, links, or even just empathy to a community of like-minded individuals. Many of them do it all for free, and their reward is a devout following of people who, in return, offer as much as they receive. It's a loop. In connecting, online and off, you're only as good as what you give away.

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.

Using a man for his money is payback for men using women for, well, just about everything.

With these words Schiller acknowledges the equal rights of sensuousness and spirituality. He concedes to sensation the right to its own existence. But at the same time we can see in this passage the outlines of a still deeper thought: the idea of a "reciprocity" between the two instincts, a community of interest, or, in modern language, a symbiosis in which the waste products of the one would be the food supply of the other.

I believe we are all connected, every living thing one to the other, so that I owe to each what I would owe to myself.

I'll pay attention to what you say if you pay attention to what I say—regardless of its value.

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours.

Outside of these deep sessions, Grant remained famously open and accessible. In some sense, he had to be: His 2013 bestseller, Give and Take, promotes the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement.

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours. This agreement gives everyone a simulacrum of importance without requiring much effort in return.

Judge not and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back. Luke 6:37-38 (RSV)

Life is worthless unless you give back more than you take.

Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.