“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.” — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Something you are unwilling to receive may be the reason for your stunt growth and development.” — John Arthur Copy Share Image
It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you. — Karen E Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“To harm nature is to harm yourself. To care for it is to care not just for yourself, but for the entire… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.” — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
Love is not 50/50, it is not give and take. In love each partner gives 100% and takes nothing in return. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meaningful eye contact has the power to transcend time and space to connect us with others and can be one of the… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“to the psychologist Robert Cialdini, people can capitalize on this norm of reciprocity by giving what they want to receive. Instead” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.” — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
You won't always get back exactly what you wanted or expected, but when you give what you can you almost always receive… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Carry out random acts of kindness, with no expectation of reward. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone may do the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Healthy independence includes a healthy interdependence on people who care about us, where we help them and they help us. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“As we explore this valuable non-verbal language, please note that these principles do not apply in many cultures around the world. In… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
“today, givers like Adam Rifkin are able to spark a more powerful form of reciprocity. Instead of trading value, Rifkin aims to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“When you see someone smile, does it naturally make you want to smile back? When you are irritable, do you find that… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“No relationship is absolutely reciprocal. Sometimes, when couples try to split everything in half, they discover that the relationship is not a… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“The individuals in a cooperative social group cannot afford to tolerate repeated defections by selfish “free riders,” such as those who hoard… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater” which coheres us, but we, in modernity, are living in a… — Toko-pa Turner Copy Share Image
“12 Reasons Why People Avoid Eye Contact 1. They do not want to reveal their feelings. 2. They are not being honest… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
