Quotes about Recognition

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger

Every step she took seemed in fact to carry her farther from the region where, once or twice, he and she had met for an illumined moment and the recognition of this fact, when its first pang had been surmounted, produced in him a sense of negative relief.

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.

In fact, the best of modern theology is revealing a strong "turn toward participation," as opposed to religion as mere observation, affirmation, moralism, or group belonging. There is nothing to join, only something to recognize, suffer, and enjoy as a participant.

To pray is to build your own house. To pray is to discover that Someone else is within your house. To pray is to recognize that it is not your house at all.