Acknowledgment Quotes

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.”
― Jennifer Lane, Spiked

“For those who find suffering inevitable--in other words, for any of us who can't dodge and pretend it's not there--acknowledging what actually happens is necessary, even if it takes decades, as it has for me.”
― Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

“I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears. Maybe if we did, we wouldn’t want to kill the broken among us who have killed others. Maybe we would look harder for solutions to caring for the disabled, the abused, the neglected, and the traumatized. I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“The art I create ends up creating me, and this is my happy ending.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“There are things that can’t be ignored, no matter how ridiculous they may seem.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I wasn't fishing for compliments, bro, but thanks, I guess.”
― Duncan Ralston, Dead Men Walking: a Novelette