Quotes About Reciprocity

Love gives every gift whereby we long to live: Love takes every gift, and nothing back doth give.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better. 1943, 29 MAY

No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.

Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with.

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

"If you don't go to other men's funerals," he told Father stiffly, "they won't go to yours."

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

If someone's friendly to me, it's my nature to be friendly back to them. But a soldier who's not scared of the bullets is a fool.

Conceding in an act of respect. To respect and to be respected is an honor.

Conceding is an act of respect. To respect and to be respected is an honor.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

A gift weighed down with obligations is scarcely a gift.

Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. "I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

God says: If you come to My House, I will come to yours.

They see themselves in you and are blinded.

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As

his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.