Quotes About Acknowledgment

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking can undo it.

Though when I turn to regard life -- my own or others'-- I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught of all that's happened and still is happening, by how much that's gone from me. Absences seem to surround and intrude upon everything. Though in acknowledging this, I cannot let it be a loss or even be a fact I regret, since that is merely how life is--another enduring truth we must notice.

Without being acknowledged, they are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them.

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

Illegitemus

At best you have one of those debilitating conditions which come in many forms, and which some people decline to admit actually exist.

And who does not want their love authenticated?

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

They regarded each other somberly, making internal adjustments to accommodate the mere glorious fact of each other.

Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?

Un genio conversa con otro genio cara a cara, lo que no solo supone una alegría recíproca, sino también una dicha para el universo entero. Esa alegría existe y el universo existe también. El día que los genios no se reconozcan unos a otros, el mundo se oscurecerá y la Tierra dejará de dar vueltas sobre su eje

Animal sacrifice, for example, the central rite of nearly every religious system in antiquity, preserved prehistoric hunting ceremonies and continued to honor a beast that gave its life for the sake of humankind. One of the functions of ritual is to evoke an anxiety in such a way that the community is forced to confront and control it. From the very beginning, it seems, religious life was rooted in acknowledgment of the tragic fact that life depends upon the destruction of other creatures.

Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.

Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

I told her, "I'm Wayne, and this is—

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

I was still getting my head round the fact that carrot juice existed

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.