Quotes About Acknowledgment

I was liked, and what a difference it made. I was respected not as Mrs. Henderson's grandchild or Bailey's sister but for just being Marguerite Johnson.

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.

The first step in becoming smarter was to admit what a dumbass you were.

She looked up to see all three of them looking at her. She put her spoon down, knowing she wasn't going to be able to eat until they got the elephant out of the room. What happened a year ago... shouldn't have happened, she said in a low voice

Me: "Ngh" Cal: "Well put." ...... Every Boy's Got One

I think you're right.

Thanks to His Majesty, the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work.

No one offends a cook.

Only a few friends realized at the time how much physical suffering I was undergoing. We are bad at recognizing the suffering of others unless we are given clear-cut clues and evidence. And so invisible illnesses often go unacknowledged, while less serious conditions get attention.

Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. —BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW

Accepting reality is touted and encouraged by most sane people.

Not acknowledging our feelings is what keeps us stuck and gives us stomachaches, headaches, and heartburn.

I'd like to make a motion that we face reality.

To acknowledge how we really feel would demand a decision—action or change—on our part.2 It would bring us face to face with reality.

Dedicated to Elizabeth R. Wollheim. Just 'cause.

Looking only at the good side of every situation is often a dangerous way of trying to escape the reality of it. When we praise God we thank Him for our situation, not in spite of it.

Tm not a teach. I'm a teacher. And I have a name. How would you like it if I called you Hey, pupe!? I'd like it fine. Why? It shows you're with it.

any radical pedagogy must insist that everyone's presence is acknowledged. That insistence cannot be simply stated. It has to be demonstrated through pedagogical practices. To begin, the professor must genuinely value everyone's presence.

there is no stigma attached to acknowledging a lack of love in one's primary relationships. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness is part of the healing process.

At the door to the locker room Dime asks [Ennis] to autograph his ball. Ennis rears back. He's chuckling but his eyes are wary. 'Why you want that? I'm just an old equipment hand, nobody cares about my autograph.' 'As far as I'm concerned you run the team,' Dime answers, so Ennis laughs and takes the Sharpie and signs his name to Dime's ball, and this will be the only autograph that Dime collects today.