Jennifer Chiaverini Quotes

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

You don't miss what you never had.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

When you don't experience something for a long time you realize how much you love it and how much you miss it.

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

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

You can't miss what you never had.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.