Take For Granted Quotes

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.

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?")

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.

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.

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.

A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

Appreciate what you have, while you have it, or you’ll learn what it meant to you after you lose it.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

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