Jenny Zhang Quotes

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Everything I am today, I owe to my father.

My sister Sonu and my brother Tony have taught me a lot. I owe them so much. Whatever I am today is because of my family.

I was lucky to be my dad's daughter, and I'm forever grateful to have Jann Arden as a strong role model in my life.

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.

It's nice to be able to go back and reflect and see how much my dad meant to people.

Don't take for granted things.

Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.

Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.