Granted Quotes

1339 quotes by 1022 authors

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.. — Albert Schweitzer
[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… — Izaak Walton
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things… — Aldous Huxley
When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints… — Unknown Author
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered — Robert A. Dahl
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe… — Adriana Trigiani
And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters… — George Seldes
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which… — Peter Matthiessen
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood. — Esther Williams
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence… — Abraham Kuyper
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… — James Atlas
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… — John Cowper Powys
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists. — Taylor Phinney
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops. — Carl Van Vechten
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… — Jennifer Worth
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing… — Anodea Judith

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