Quotes About Taking Life For Granted

#1. 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.

Henry Rollins

#2. In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

Stephen Batchelor

#3. There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

David Levithan

#4. There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.

Chris Matakas

#5. In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

Stephen Batchelor

#6. Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

George Sand

#7. I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Coco Chanel

#8. I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

Frank Gehry

#9. They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

Grenville Kleiser

#11. In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Psy

#12. For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.

Greg Rucka

#13. There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

Josie Maran

#14. Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Robert A. Burton

#16. 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.

Pandora Boxx

#17. You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time,

Amy Pascal

#18. In this delicate and unpredictable life, the future is unwritten. Do not take someone for granted today, for once tomorrow dawns upon the indigo night the only remaining trace will be tracks in the sand...

Virginia Alison

#19. Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

Anna Quindlen

#20. I lost every other person I ever loved."
"And whose fault is that?

Victoria Aveyard

#21. It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

Greg Giraldo

#22. Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#23. I guess we're all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

Danielle Esplin

#24. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis

#25. Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Mike Myers

#26. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

John Heilpern

#27. I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Rick Moody