Nora Roberts Quotes

Why is everything so easy for me?

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

It is easy to react if everything is going great.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

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

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.

Success is easy to take for granted.

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

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

We can take these things for granted, when we have everything on a plate.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

It is not customary to love what one has.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.