Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

When somebody says I wouldn't change a thing they're thinking of something they would change.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.