Taken For Granted Quotes
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“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
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“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.
Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.”
― The Bane Chronicles
Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.”
― The Bane Chronicles
“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”
― The Bane Chronicles
― The Bane Chronicles
“What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“If you become too readily available to people, they begin to take you for granted; pull away, and they will clamor for you. It's a subconscious thing our society has created in the minds of the masses. This is why most of the "greats" didn't become recognized until after their death. If you're overlook, rejoice, maybe your one of the future greats.”
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“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.”
― A Judgement in Stone
― A Judgement in Stone
“Are you committed?"
"No. I'm taken"
"Its the same thing"
"No"
"Okay. Taken by?"
"No. Taken for"
"For what?"
"Granted”
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"No. I'm taken"
"Its the same thing"
"No"
"Okay. Taken by?"
"No. Taken for"
"For what?"
"Granted”
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“They don't know how warm you are and how warm they are with you, not until they're cold. People think a bonfire is something they can build anywhere. It's not. It takes wood, an open space, ideally stars in the sky. They can't fabricate that. They don't know how warm you are until they're cold. They don't know your stars until you're not there.”
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“The grocery store
has rows and rows
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Home of the Brave
has rows and rows
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Home of the Brave
“Things taken for granted are the things, if not granted, causes us the biggest discomfort. Very often it's the neglected small things which forms the biggest of shadows while walking away.”
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“You will be taken for granted.
You may be hurt to your very core,
and still be asked to give a little more!”
― Lost in a Quatrain
You may be hurt to your very core,
and still be asked to give a little more!”
― Lost in a Quatrain
“The grocery store
has does and does
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Home of the Brave
has does and does
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Home of the Brave
“Don't become the enemy trying to fix people. People will always love their old ways, that may just work for them.
If they accept your instructions when you are around them and do otherwise when you are absent - they fear you not respect you.
Let them be the architects of their own doom without blaming it on you.”
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If they accept your instructions when you are around them and do otherwise when you are absent - they fear you not respect you.
Let them be the architects of their own doom without blaming it on you.”
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“Our value is without compliments until we are gone, until we become unreachable, until we are scarce.”
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“When man was created it was not for this purpose
To become taken over and be utterly worthless”
― Like A Box Of Chocolates
To become taken over and be utterly worthless”
― Like A Box Of Chocolates
“A hand to hold, stolen kisses, whispers of love... there are so many things taken for granted every day and you don't realize just how important they were until they are gone.”
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“He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.”
― The Message to the Planet
― The Message to the Planet
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