Reciprocal Quotes

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serious, and he stopped me, and he said that unrequited love was not possible; that it was not love. He said that love must be freely given, and freely taken, such that the lovers, in joining, make equal halves of something whole.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A woman’s heart is her prized possession and if she shares it with you, consider yourself blessed. It is vital to her very being; it has the capability to pump life-giving love into every living cell of your body. It can make a man believe he can fly. It can be like water to a man dying of thirst. It has the ability to keep both of you breathing when one’s breath is taken away by life’s ups and downs. In order for it to achieve these awe inspiring feats, a man must do his part to keep her heart beating for him. Because of her heart’s vital role in sustaining the relationship, if you play with her heart and it stops beating for you…it most certainly will result in the death of the relationship.

In order for her heart to deliver this life-giving love to all of your cells, a love equally as strong must be pumped into every fiber of her being. That love must be capable of purifying the bad blood she has taken in throughout the day that took her breath away and bring pure love back to her heart. In this way it is a continuous cycle allowing reciprocal life-giving love to flow between the two of you sustaining the very life of your relationship.”
― Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy

“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of ageing. Tenderly treating the elderly is therefore entirely reciprocal.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The reciprocity of respect accrues to us not only from those we respect but also from others who perceive that we respect ourselves.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu