Quotes on Things We Take For Granted

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.

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.

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

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.