Quotes about Mutuality

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.

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.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.