Mutual Giving Quotes

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

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.

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.

When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else - especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.

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?

I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.

And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

Remember that relationships are important and have to be nurtured and cherished. Also keep in mind that a relationship is a two way street, so be ready to give a relationship just as you would expect the other person to be giving to you.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.