Quotes about Reciprocity

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

So let's obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us, How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere.

It should be the other way around.

They are far more likely to return the favor.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.