Quotes About Acknowledgment

Tis a thankless world

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.

What they call you is one thing, but what you answer to is so much more important.

Stanley was pleased that his classmates, who still remembered his

How do successful leaders respond when someone congratulates them on a good job? They start talking about the great team they've got working for them. How this person or that person stepped up in the effort. Or how everyone really came together to pull through. Why? Because they know what it takes to succeed. It takes a team.

Don't thank people for giving you what you should already have

las chicharras eran las únicas que agradecían al sol que llegara a la mitad del cielo. Nadie miraba las lagartijas tornasoles

We will never like this reality or make it okay, but eventually we accept it.

acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss. It would be too soon for Keith to be able to accept this situation. He can acknowledge the reality of the loss

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.

What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you. I

What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you.

CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE'S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO

People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.

We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right- I was speaking tot he creator of the universe as though we'd just been introduced at a cocktail party. But we work with what we know in this life, and these are the words I always use at the beginning of a relationship. In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, I've always been a big fan of your work..

One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves. I looked at each thought, at each unit of sorrow, and I acknowledged its existence and felt (without trying to protect myself from it) its horrible pain. And then I would tell that sorrow, It's OK. I love you. I accept you. Come into my heart now. It's over....

Your worth as a hostess consists in displaying the talents of your guests, not crowing about your own.

She was paying me the compliment of her undivided attention, ...

You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.

They were just cups of acceptance.