Reciprocal Relationship Quotes

When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."

I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

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.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

... show respect for your money ... Then your money will think and care about you in return.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

You do not OWN a dog. You HAVE a dog. And the dog HAS YOU

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.