Recognition Quotes - Page 38

• You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Desire, Desire For Success, Reason

  "Thoughts on Writing" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.elizabethgilbert.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Organization, Facts

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• So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

  Patti Smith

  Sleep, Eye, Light

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.283, A&C Black

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• The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Simple, Feet

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Able, Limits, Existentialism

  Simone de Beauvoir (1948). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”

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• Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Men, Faults

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

  Paul Brunton

  Crush, Doors, Grace

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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• Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

  Ann Aguirre

  Believe, Sight, Firsts

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

  David F. Wells

  Attitude, Humble, Humility

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• Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

  Adam Phillips

  Blind Spots, Limits, Sanity

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

  William Gibson

  Life, Risk, Patterns

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

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• No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

  Markus Zusak

  Unconditional Love, Matter, Abandonment

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Random House

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• I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

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• To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

  William Golding

  Eye, White, Numbers

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.100, Hamilton Books

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• It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fate, Path, Impatient

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Secrets of a Summer Night”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the King of England, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from God. The keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the Declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.' Religion and God are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.

  Mark Levin

  Kings, Men, Rights

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• Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

  P. L. Travers

  Running, Grandmother, Knowing

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• The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Rights, Law

  "Whence Come Wars". Book by Fulton J. Sheen (p. 60), 1940.

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• The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Spiritual, Cutting, Reality

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.125, Three Rivers Press

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• My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

  Deb Caletti

  Running, Father, Mean

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Psychology, Psychological

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• Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.

  Darynda Jones

  Halloween, Government, Week

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.239, St. Martin's Press

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• So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Love Is, Oneness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

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• Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Liars, Artist, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.408, Modern Library

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