Quotes About Acknowledgment

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Neil says "Hi" by the way...

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. "Hullo. Nice to see you.

There is nothing sentimental about this world. Like the weather, this world asks only to be acknowledged. There is nothing comforting about it, and yet if you are afraid to see it in its own terms and look to it for comfort, for solace, you will be left worse off than you were before.

the things we don't deal with always come back. There's no escape

BARBARA: God, Deon, you look really good. You really . . . filled out. Nicely, I mean. You just look great. SHERIFF GILBEAU: Thanks. BARBARA: How 'bout me, don't I look good? SHERIFF GILBEAU: Yes, sorry, yes. You look great, too, just great.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I don't know your name." "Kindle," she said.

NightWings will try to counter your sarcasm with more sarcasm, as though every conversation is a competition to see whose wit is more biting. No one ever stops to acknowledge that someone else was funny.

Tell me about someone who is better than you in an area that really matters to you." Look for the candidate to demonstrate a genuine appreciation for others who have more skill or talent. Humble people are comfortable with this. Ego-driven people often are not.

I don't care. Cause when you see a scrap of pretty in this world, you gotta stop and give it a little respect.

True humility doesn't deny abilities but rather acknowledges God as the source of these gifts, for which we can't take credit.

We are helpless as babies about this. Whatever we can see and do not understand and must acknowledge, we make over in our own image. The moon, the sea, the prairie — all present insurmountable barriers of distance. We cross them on the craft of egocentricity. We make the moon the marker of time and the dwelling place of desire; the sea the mirror, the bosom; the prairie the breadbasket.

Alinsky offered this curious opening acknowledgment: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history … the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.

He caught my eye, saw me staring, and waved in a neighborly way, from his own country.

She received it as a god is received

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence.

I only started to get better once I accepted that I had a problem.

Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.