Quotes about Reciprocity

Perhaps most of all, you need to give to yourself first for a while. Then you might try giving others a tiny bit more than you think you can, consciously noting and letting go of any ideas of getting anything in return.

Tsze-Kung asked, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

When we enter into a covenant relationship with God, we tend to focus on the fact that we are legally and morally bound to God, but God is also legally and morally bound to us. The gospel demands that we give all of ourselves to God, but when we do, God gives all of Himself to us.

What recourse do we have but to be of mutual help to one another and to forgive those who fall, since we ourselves have already fallen or are about to fall?

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Love, and you shall be loved