Quotes About Preparation

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

School is a foretaste of life.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

When a voyager begins a journey, he prepares his ship, decides upon his course and sets sail. What else can he do? But he cannot know the outcome – what storms may arise, what new lands he may find, or whether or not he will return. That is destiny, and you must accept it. Never think you can escape destiny.

What if significant reasons our veterans suffer in epidemic numbers lie, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "not in the veterans but in ourselves"? What if the sources of traumatic breakdown are in society; in our beliefs and practices; in the reasons and ways we prepare for and make war; and in the ways we neglect or fail our troops before, during, and after service? What if veterans are carrying our collective war wounding alone because it is denied and disowned by society at large?