Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

you dont know what you got till its gone

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

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

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Personally, I don't think about the things I have won but the things I have lost.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

It's important to remember to pinch yourself to remind you where you came from and how lucky you are.

I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players. So I definitely take time to realize where I'm at in my life. And I know that I'm blessed.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.