Quotes About Reciprocity

People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Por lo que tengo que deciros, señoras mías, que a quien te la hace se la hagas; y si no puedes, que no se te vaya de la cabeza hasta que lo consigas, para que lo que el burro da contra la pared lo mismo reciba.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.

Justice, then, must function at both levels: personal and communal. It must flow in both directions: from one individual to another and from the community as a whole to each individual.

If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

I pet her and she pays me back in purrs.

1. You Get What You Give.

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

For there to be a gift, there must be no reciprocity, return, exchange, countergift, or debt. (...) For there to be a gift, it is necessary that the donee not give back, amortize, reimburse, (...)

Giving is as important a duty as getting; and he who gets all he can, and refuses to give, will at last be unable to get; for it is as much a spiritual law that we cannot get unless we give, as that we cannot give unless we get.

If you want someone to spend one hour of their life helping you, then you need to spend 10 hours of your life, at least, helping them IN ADVANCE and with NO PRESSURE.

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back.

Lend a little and you have a debtor—lend a lot and you have a partner!

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

When you are loving someone, that someone is loving you, too. That is the universal law. No exception.

You never can give without receiving it.

What you give today you get tomorrow.

Karma says what you give is what you get, so why do the loyal person end up being betrayed

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.