Quotes on Taking Things For Granted

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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

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.

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

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long_x000D_ _x000D_ as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is_x000D_ _x000D_ the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.