Take For Granted Quotes (20 quotes)

“Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don’t sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arrest, art, ass, attention, aware, blindness, blow, conscience, deafness, kick, mind, nothing-at-all, numbness, pigeon-hole, scream, sense, shake-up, shout, take-for-granted

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“Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awareness, blessings, conscience, experience, famine, food, granted, guarantee, guilt, hunger, responsibility, starvation, take-for-granted, wastefulness

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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, appreciate, appreciation, axiom, axioms, bighearted, callous, caring, charitable, cold, cold-hearted, compassionate, considerate, cruel, death, deep, dictum, dictums, empathetic, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, hard-hearted, heartless, humane, humor, humour, inconsiderate, inhuman, insensitive, insightful, kind, lenient, life, life-partner, life-partners, love, lover, lovers, loving, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mean-spirited, merciful, merciless, need, needs, pitiless, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, remind, reminder, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sensitive, solicitous, stony-hearted, sympathetic, take-for-granted, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tolerant, uncaring, unconcerned, understanding, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic, want, wants, warm, waste

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“Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.”
― J.R. Rim

tags: belief, believe, believing, dream, dreaming, dreams, faith, feet, flight, fly, flying, foundation, jump, jumping, leap, leap-of-faith, live-life, rock, solid, take-flight, take-for-granted, wing, wings, work

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“Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: attitude, happiness, happy, happy-life, lost-and-found, perspective, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, take-for-granted

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“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: deception, delusion, fantasy, personal, reality, reveal, self-deception, take-for-granted, thinking, truth

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“Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: disrepectful, entrap, glory, holy, pearls, pigs, run-off, something-of-value, swine, take-for-granted, the-best-of-you, trample-upon, unappreciated, use-you, waste-of-time

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“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: appreciate, appreciation, assume, assumptions, blind, blinded, careless, carelessness, cherish, cherishing, gone, granted, hold-dear, ignorance, ignore, lose, lost, take-for-granted, tragedy, tragic, valuable, value

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“One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: adversity, faith, gratitude, growth, humility, learning, long-term, meaning, pain, perseverance, persistence, pride, reason, short-term, strength, suffering, take-for-granted, thankfulness, weakness

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“I've noticed people often complain about the monotony of life. How sometimes very day is just like the last and they all blend together. Do they know how lucky they are? But maybe that's the problem with a smooth pleasant routine, you begin taking it for granted.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

tags: ordinary, routine, take-for-granted

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“Don’t take me for granted. I know more than I let on, see more than you realize., and care more than you can imagine.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

tags: caring-quotes, empathy-for-others, take-for-granted

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“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: ambivalence, ambivalent, attitude, high-performance, high-productivity, take-for-granted, unappreciated, work, working

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“Appreciate what you have, while you have it, or you’ll learn what it meant to you after you lose it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness

tags: appreciation, appreciation-quotes, take-for-granted

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“The granted for taken.”
― Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal

tags: life, philosophy, poetry, take-for-granted

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“Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.”
― Melody Carstairs

tags: friends, friendship, friendship-quotes, loyalties, loyalty, respect, take-for-granted, true, trust

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“Life is full of blessings we take for granted. Yet so often we dwell on what we don't have. Appreciate what you already have and be grateful.”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo

tags: appreciate-life, appreciate-what-you-have, blessings, contentment-quotes, dwell, grateful, life-is-full-of-possibilities, napz-cherub-pellazo, take-for-granted

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“At times in life we take our blessings for granted.”
― Angel Moreira

tags: blessing-in-disguise, blessings, blessings-in-your-life, blessings-quotes, granted, life, life-quotes, take-for-granted

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“Things you may take for granted, other people are praying for”
― Marlan Rico Lee

tags: take-for-granted

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“...happiness isn't something you should take for granted. It should be savored, because you don't know what tomorrow will bring.”
― Alisha Rai, Hurts to Love You

tags: future, happiness, take-for-granted, tomorrow

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“Take your dreams for granted at your own peril.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

tags: caution, dreaming, granted, omen, peril, premonition, premonitions, take-for-granted, warning, warnings

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