Quotes About Not Recognizing What You Have

#1. Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#2. True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are. - Author: Sanaya Roman

#3. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own. - Author: Joss Whedon

#4. Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences. - Author: Karen Salmansohn

#5. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God. - Author: Robert H. Schuller

#6. Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up. - Author: J.L. Austin

#7. But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me. - Author: Sara Gilbert

#8. Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#9. And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them. - Author: Susie Morgenstern

#10. It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend. - Author: Tom Perrotta

#11. 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. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#12. Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you. - Author: Andrew Solomon

#13. Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void ... - Author: Emily Giffin

#14. I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me. - Author: Marguerite Duras

#15. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why. - Author: Flannery O'Connor

#17. 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. (p. 163) - Author: Geneen Roth

#18. I was struck by what kept her in place, her fear of hurting him. It reminded me of my own darkest moments, waking up one day, looking around, and not recognizing your own self, because you have given too much of that away. - Author: Sara Bareilles

#19. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward. - Author: Davis Bunn

#20. The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance. - Author: Socrates

#21. Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. - Author: Kenneth Branagh

#22. A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. - Author: Walter Lippmann

#23. Science is about recognizing patterns. [ ... ] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices. - Author: Christopher Knight

#24. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress. - Author: Abhijit Naskar

#25. Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion. - Author: Arthur C. Clarke

#26. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis. - Author: Grace Lee Boggs

#27. The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this. - Author: Nick Goepper

#28. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning. - Author: Tanveer Naseer

#29. But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding. - Author: Amy Engel

#30. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go. - Author: Jacqueline Koyanagi

#31. 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. - Author: Johnny Weir

#32. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. - Author: Andrew Carnegie

#33. Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset. - Author: Jack McDevitt

#34. House of pleasure, how may I orally please you? she purred, recognizing the number. - Author: Eve Langlais

#35. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free - Author: Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#36. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low. - Author: Sam Hamill

#37. If you were crazy you wouldn't realize how crazy it sounds," she said gently but insistently. "You're recognizing a problem and you're getting help for it, the same way any sane person with a medical problem would. - Author: Jenny Lawson

#38. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. - Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec