Recognizing Quotes - Page 16

• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Compassion, Perspective

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• Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  People, Ignorant, Way

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.50, Melville House

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• As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Hands, Voice

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• She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, House, Forever

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• Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Country, War, Successful

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• Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void.

  Emily Giffin

  Disappointment, Void

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

  Aberjhani

  Choices, Baptism, Ink

  Aberjhani (2008). “The American Poet Who Went Home Again”, p.19, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Acceptance, Feelings

  "Accepting Absolutely Everything" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Humble, Mean, Differences

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• Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Character, Power, Doe

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• In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Years, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Israel, Land, People

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• Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

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• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Long, People, Essentials

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• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Games, Sound

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• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, Home, Sacrifice

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• I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

  Johnny Weir

  Basketball, Athlete, Player

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• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

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• Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Ideas, Support Systems

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Loss, Order, Grace

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• We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Imposter

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.

  Sándor Márai

  Vanity, Who We Are, Life Is

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• Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

  Philip K. Dick

  Eye, Knowing, Childhood

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wisdom, Energy, Spirit

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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