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Quotes About Acknowledgment

a man, who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.
~ Alice Hoffman
what she misses most is someone knowing she's alive
~ Alice Hoffman
She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
~ Alice Hoffman
She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.
~ Alice Hoffman
for things without remedy must be without regard.
~ Alice Hoffman
Você não pode fingir que algo real não existe.
~ Alice Hoffman
The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
~ Alice Miller
If not consciously acknowledged and mourned, uncertainty about one's descent can cause great anxiety and unrest, all the more so if, as in Alois's case, it is linked with an ominous rumor that can neither be proven nor completely refuted
~ Alice Miller
True adulthood would mean no longer denying the truth. It would mean feeling the repressed suffering, consciously acknowledging the story remembered by the body at an emotional level, and integrating that story instead of repressing it.
~ Alice Miller
The living deserve attention, too
~ Alice Sebold
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She's never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
~ Alice Sebold
There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
~ Alice Walker
I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM
~ Alice Walker
Há qualquer faceta em todos nós que deseja uma medalha por aquilo que temos feito. Essa faceta deseja ser apreciada.
~ Alice Walker
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.
~ Alice Walker
We must acknowledge and reclaim our true size. Dignity is important. Self-respect. We cannot lead by pretending to be powerless. We're not. Age is power. Or it can be if it isn't distracted by shopping and cooking and trying to look nineteen.
~ Alice Walker
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
~ Allen Ginsberg
You are a pot of gold, don't think I don' realize it.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Zachwyt nad kim?: serdeczne uznanie, ?e kto? przypomina nas samych.
~ Ambrose Bierce
How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?
~ Amitav Ghosh