Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom. β Akiane Kramarik
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to. β Alex Grey
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. β Joyce Brothers
Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible. β Yanni
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend. β Henri Nouwen
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. β David Hackworth
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. β Robin Gibb
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for β Robert Frost
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. β Amelia Earhart
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. β Francis of Assisi
I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform. β Clayton Kershaw
If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat. β Louis Tomlinson
Granted Image Quotes
Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory. β Ansel Elgort
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. β Gene Kelly
The world is not a wish granting factory...
Not Taking Life For Granted Quotes
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. β Ajahn Brahm
I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift. β Robert Plant
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us. β Thomas Nagel
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us. β Jean Liedloff
Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives. β Shigeru Miyamoto
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. β Coco Chanel
I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. β Debbi Fields
The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me. β Malcolm Goodwin
If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him. β Henry Rollins
Never Taking Life For Granted Quotes
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. β Abraham Joshua Heschel
The lesson learned: Never take your loved ones for granted. And if youβre ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possibly make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment. β SebastiAn
I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive. β Erma Bombeck
Never give up and take nothing for granted in life. β Dwyane Wade
Life is a gift. Never take it for granted. β Sasha Azevedo
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed. β Lee Ann Womack
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. β Michael Ende
I don't take anything for granted. β Bubba Watson
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. β Mitch Albom
I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted. β Michael Skolnik
Taking Things For Granted Quotes
Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns. β Nelson Mandela
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen. β Florence Griffith Joyner
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences. β Michael Craig-Martin
Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for. β Ana Monnar
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there. β Sayings
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world. β Dan Beachy-Quick
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. β Cynthia Ozick
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. β Melinda Gates
God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted. β Colleen Hoover
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted. β Albert Schweitzer
Never Take For Granted Quotes
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. β Koos Bekker
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. β Sara Shepard
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' β Gerald Asher
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder. β Thomas Merton
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. β Dick Cheney
I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted. β Andy Murray
I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling. β Angela Lansbury
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace β R. C. Sproul
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again. β Lou Gramm
Take Nothing For Granted Quotes
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. β Lance Armstrong
If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. β Gary Zukav
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. β Dwight D. Eisenhower
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new? β Michael Shurtleff
I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted. β Mario Andretti
Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift. β Cindy Ross
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love. β Amy Carmichael
I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted. β Anna Faris
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. β Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule. β Emily Giffin
Never Take Anything For Granted Quotes
Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen. β Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed. β Will Smith
You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted. β Chris Martin
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer. β Lance Armstrong
When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted. β Sandra Bullock
I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again. β Nora Roberts
Taken-for-granted Quotes
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. β Edgar Schein
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. β Jan Peter Balkenende
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. β David Rockefeller
The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. β Loren Cunningham
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all Iβve taken for granted. β Sylvia Plath
I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them. β Julio Cortazar
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. β Bertrand Russell
I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society. β Sasha Azevedo
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. β Susan Oliver
I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed. β Olafur Eliasson
Things We Take For Granted Quotes
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life. β John Cowper Powys
We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. β Mitch Albom
Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant. β Jennifer Worth
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. β Norman Borlaug
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. β Sayings
I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before. β Chris LeDoux
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings. β Diana L. Eck
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime. β John Desmond Bernal
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily. β Izaak Walton
We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely. β Pandora Boxx
Taken For Granted Quotes
I like to stay free because then I can see the little miracles in life. There are little miracles everywhere; itβs just we have taken them for granted. β Naval Ravikant
Freedom, human rights, tolerance, peace and prosperity are like the eternal flame that must be guarded, nurtured and never, ever taken for granted. β Konstantin Kisin
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. β Marilyn Kaytor
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections. β Nicola Sturgeon
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them β Aldo Leopold
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted. β Chester W. Nimitz
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. β Bill Bryson
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. β Edward De Bono
Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert. β Robert H. Jackson
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted. β Larry Flynt
Took For Granted Quotes
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. β Derek Walcott
I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted. β Melissa Rauch
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly. β Antonin Scalia
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball. β Wade Boggs
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. β Edward De Bono
I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. β Marilyn Monroe
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. β Wyndham Lewis
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it. β Simone de Beauvoir
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles. β Mac Thornberry
Being Grateful For Life Quotes
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful. β Rumi
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. β Norton Juster
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. β David Steindl-Rast
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. β David Steindl-Rast
Iβm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love β for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. Iβm grateful to know that it exists. β Maya Angelou
Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. β Rhonda Byrne
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. β Marcel Proust
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. β Fauja Singh
I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life. β William Ury
Now is the best time to be alive. I'm grateful for this moment and for the entire history of life on Earth that led up to it. β Lex Fridman
Gratitude For Life Quotes
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. β Robert Breault
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. β Maya Angelou
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! β Elif Safak
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. β Thornton Wilder
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians. β Daniel Dennett
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. β Margaret Cousins
I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have. β James Franco
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life. β Hafez
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. β Alfred North Whitehead
Be grateful, for gratitude can bring life to life, it can turn a meal to a feast, resentment to love, a grudge to forgiveness, an enemy to a friend, a disease to hope, and you to enough. β Steven Bartlett
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. β Reinhold Niebuhr
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. β Muammar al-Gaddafi
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen β Martin Luther
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. β Abraham Joshua Heschel
All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested. β Pope Urban II
We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God. β Vincent de Paul
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so. β Alexander Pushkin
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. β Julius Nyerere
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. β Jon Katz
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. β Nachman of Breslov
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. β Marva Collins
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love. β Francis of Assisi
During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD. β John Coltrane
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. β King George III
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. β George III
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. β Helen Steiner Rice
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. β David Wilkerson
Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise β Jeff Hardy
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. β Thomas Aquinas
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. β Axl Rose
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. β General Robert E. Lee
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. β Robert E. Lee
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. β Francis of Assisi
It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot. β St. Jerome
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. β Deepak Chopra
Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen. β Wilhelm II
Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting. β Dean Martin
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them! β Alistair Begg
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