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• At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Compassion, Self

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Firsts, Steps

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Errors, Guarantees

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

  James Agee

  Writing, Artist, Facts

  James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

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• Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.

  Albert J. Nock

  Running, Character, Men

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• Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care... be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!

  Kim Peek

  Our World, Differences, Different

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• Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

  Laurence Overmire

  Learning, Ignorance, Firsts

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• Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Empathy, Needs

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.44, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

  Umberto Eco

  Moments, Enough, Seeking

  Umberto Eco (1997). “Foucault's Pendulum”

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• Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Giving, Important

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• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

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• Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Leader

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.76, Conari Press

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• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

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• The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.

  Adyashanti

  Hate, Love You, Important

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.56, Sounds True

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• I am recognizing that the voice inside my head
  Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else
  Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Voice, Hip Hop

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• We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an environment where there will be greater choice in communications services and providers.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Communication, Reality, Choices

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• 'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

  Jack Dorsey

  Motivational, Luck, Execution

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• We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in all of our choices and decisions, make good use of every opportunity, and do our best in every task we undertake. We should not be unduly discouraged nor in despair at any time when we are doing the best we can. Rather, we should be satisfied with our progress even though it may come slowly at times.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Opportunity, Choices, Decision

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• Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

  Piet Mondrian

  Life, Art, Giving

  "The new art - the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian".

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• Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

  Muhammad Ali

  Light, Spirituality, Divine

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 18, 2014

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• Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Selfish, Essence, Self Centered

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• It's not about having a specific set time; both personal and professional lives are 24/7. It's simply, more about making the right allocation to each one and recognizing that it's going to be different every single day

  Ellen J. Kullman

  Inspiration, Different, Personal And Professional Life

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• Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Looks, How You Feel, Way

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• When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Responsibility, Worry, Use

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• I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, Humanity

  Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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