Top 41 Quotes About Self Recognition
#1. Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.
Paul Twitchell
#2. People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti
#3. A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a "Gnani" [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].
Dada Bhagwan
#5. To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
Human Angels
#6. But this is an impossibility.23 You cannot get an identity through self-recognition; it must come in a great measure from others.
Timothy J. Keller
#7. In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked ...
Harold Brodkey
#8. The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.
Eric Weiner
#9. History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
Terence McKenna
#10. What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
Dermot Davis
#11. The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.
Breyten Breytenbach
#13. There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
George C. Scott
#14. As every organizer knows, the first step to empowerment is the recognition of self-worth and the identification of one's interests with that of others. Political mobilization depends on this.
John Restakis
#15. Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
Gary Zukav
#16. Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
Gary Crowley
#17. All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
Dada Bhagwan
#18. Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have.
Bryant McGill
#20. To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.
Rick Gekoski
#21. The decision as to whether to risk one's actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.
(from The structure of desire and recognition)
Robert B. Brandom
#22. I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
Donna Tartt
#23. Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#24. There's nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what's wrong is when you think that's who you are.
Morton Shaevitz
#25. There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#26. Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.
Sri Chinmoy
#27. We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.
Martha C. Nussbaum
#28. I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
Seanan McGuire
#29. I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being
forgive me
rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
J.K. Rowling
#30. A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
Abraham Maslow
#31. Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
Simone De Beauvoir
#32. And if the object of one's desire is a relationship with God, his blessing and love, then the struggle cannot fail but ends in that self-giving to God, in recognition of one's own weakness, which is overcome only by giving oneself over into God's merciful hands.
Benedict, Pope XVI
#33. It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; ... the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#34. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
Francis Fukuyama
#35. Humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God's eyes and that all we are is pure gift.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#36. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.
Otto Rank
#37. The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
Barack Obama
#38. An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.
Peter London
#39. Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.
Jean Edward Smith
#40. Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.
Harold Klemp
#41. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
