Quotes About Reciprocity

We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

We are here to serve, but the beauty is that when we serve others we also serve ourselves, what we give out is what we get back. The best way then actually to get what you want from life is to help others to get what they want. So why not help more and why give out rubbish when that is exactly what we will get back?

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Thus there is an analogy between the juridical relation of human actions and the mechanical relation of moving forces. I never can do anything to another man without giving him a right to do the same to me on the same conditions; just as no body can act with its moving force on another body without thereby causing the other to react equally against it.

things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

Take note: If little by little you stop loving me, I'll stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me Don't come looking for me, I'll already have forgotten you. —PABLO NERUDA "If you forget me" THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES

El temor? No lo conocen. Aprecian primero la valentía y segundo la reciprocidad: tú me das, yo te doy, con justicia. No tienen calabozos, alguaciles ni otras leyes más que las naturales; el castigo también es natural, quien hace algo malo corre el riesgo de que le llegue lo mismo. Así es en la Naturaleza, y no puede ser diferente entre los humanos.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

He will give the devil his due.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.

It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us.

Give and take makes good friends.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.