Granted Quotes - Page 35

• Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friendship, Mean, Kind

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• If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Attachment, Missing

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• Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, People, Roles

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Opportunity, Uniforms, Dodgers

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• Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Desire, Body, Care

  FaceBook post by Jada Pinkett Smith from Jul 16, 2013

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• 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

  Smell, Appreciate, Rose

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• There’s a lot that is good in your life-don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

  Joel Osteen

  Struggle, Missing, Today

  Twitter post from May 15, 2014

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• Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

  Mark Twain

  Bridges, Cities, America

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• He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

  Albert Camus

  Divine Justice, Would Be, Sin

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.118, Vintage

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

  Anna Quindlen

  Happiness, Bedrock

  "Anna Quindlen discusses 'A Short Guide To A Happy Life'". BookBrowse interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Failure, Compassion, Blessing

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• Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Community, Democracy

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Fabric, Sometimes

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Thank God for the day. Thank God for the morning. Won't take this here for granted; no, good Lord, I gots to get on it.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Morning, Thank God, Lord

  Song: Wake Up, Album: 4 Eva N A Day, 2012

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• The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fighting, People, Vision

  "2008 Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver". today.duke.edu. May 11, 2008.

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• We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

  John Diefenbaker

  Rights, Borders, Maintenance

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• If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Giving, Grace, Favors

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• He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Littles, Mystery

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• We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

  Brandon Lee

  Real, People, Forever

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• It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hypnosis, Break Through, People

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.37, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing them for the first time. It helps us to remember the wonders that we take for granted.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Smell, Appreciate

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Jul 09, 2014

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• As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

  Dave Grohl

  Years, Lucky, Half

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• Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last 3 minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?

  Louise Hay

  Long, Needs, Substance

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• Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Taken, Blessing, Forgotten

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