Things We Take For Granted Quotes

• The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Beautiful, Flower, Love Is

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• I don't take anything for granted.

  Bubba Watson

  Taken For Granted, Taking Things For Granted, Never Take Anything For Granted

  "I don't take anything for granted". Interview with Greg Prato, bravewords.com. May 24, 2016.

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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• 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.

  Adrien Brody

  Loneliness, Loss, People

  "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Rural Areas, Granted

  "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

  Alex Grey

  Taken For Granted, Trying, Alive

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• 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.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• 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.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  Paula Abdul

  Art, Taken, Talent

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Eye, People, Appreciate

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• Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ecosystems, Support, Effort

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• I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.

  Antony Hegarty

  Thinking, Order, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  Bertrand Russell

  Meaningful, School, Data

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