emotional reciprocity Quotes

It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

You can't love someone unless they love you back.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.