Granted Quotes - Page 36

• As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.

  David Abram

  Animal, Talking, Rivers

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• If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Prayer, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Character, Two, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We should feel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God, and that from Him and Him alone can we expect every kind of good, every manner of help, and victory. Since we are nothing, we can expect nothing from ourselves, except stumblings and falls, which make us relinquish all hope of ourselves. On the other hand, we are certain always to be granted victory by God, if we arm our heart with a living trust in Him and an unshakable certainty that we will receive His help.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Fall, Heart

  "Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli".

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• The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Eye, Light

  "The homilies".

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• The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'. They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Salvation, Increase

  "Conferences".

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• [God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him turn once or twice to an old man. This youngster, to whom He had granted a direct encounter with Himself, had nevertheless to go for instruction to someone who had offended God, and all because that person was an old man. He decided that Samuel was most worthy of a high calling and yet He made him submit to the guidance of an old man so that once summoned to a divine ministry he might learn humility and might himself become for all the young a model of deference.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Teaching, Humility

  "Conferences".

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• The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

  David Whyte

  Journey, Sight, Self

  FaceBook post by David Whyte from Apr 29, 2013

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• Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Taken, Complaining, Praise

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

  Michael Symon

  Levels, Taking Things For Granted, Restaurants

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• It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Banking, Difficult

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.552, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Taken, People, Realizing

  Lesley M. M. Blume (2008). “Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters”, p.102, Yearling

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• One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.

  Colin Morgan

  Being Thankful, Important, Way

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• These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops.

  Lierre Keith

  Spiritual, War, Passion

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.1, PM Press

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• NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN 'EVERYONE ELSE,' WHICH IS AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUSAbout the world we create when we fall in love, and how we navigate the space between us and that separating us from everyone else.

  Manohla Dargis

  Falling In Love, Taken, Space

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• Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Unexpected, Scientist, Curious

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• The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

  Josh Gad

  Israel, Hands, Tv Shows

  "The Tavis Smiley Show', www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Self, Choices

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• I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

  Lucy Liu

  Queens, Height, Taught

  "Minority model" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2003.

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• At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

  Erika Christensen

  Girl, Years, Giving

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• Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

  Laz Alonso

  Blessing, People, Appreciate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Space, Would Be

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.24, editionNEXT.com

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• The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

  Steve Squyres

  Taken, Mars, Earth

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Jeff Ament

  Sex, Taken, Kids

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• To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

  Pierre Salinger

  Children, Taken, Life Is

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