Quotes about Mutuality
All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine; and in them I have been glorified.
— John 17:10
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
— Cicero
We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.
— Ravi Zacharias
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.
— Marianne Williamson
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
— Frederick Buechner
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
— Albert Camus
The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.
— Joshua Harris
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
— CS Lewis
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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?
— Walt Whitman