Quotes about Reciprocity

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

If you are in need of any spiritual thing -- joy, assurance, peace, or whatelse soever -- you can only come into full possession of it by giving an equivalent; you must pay the price for it.

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

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.

What you give today you get tomorrow.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.