“Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.” Life IsPreparation Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.” ThinkingWayLife IsDiesFindingsPreparation Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsLife IsGivenAnswersKnownPreparedCuriousPreparationColleaguesDomainSequence Author:Edwin Land
“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.” WayDoeIdeasSometimesMightHappensLife IsNextMistakeClassTeachBreakTestsWho You AreWingsScriptsHandlePreparationNo IdeaMaking MistakesMapsRest Of Your Life Book:From What I Remember Source: From What I Remember
“The good life is the best preparation for bad times.” Life IsPreparationGood LifeBad Times Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.” FeelingsLife IsGreaterMinutesGenuinePreparationThis DayAnticipationHere And NowWorth LivingLife Is Worth Living Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.” PeopleWarCountryPlayLife IsNumbersSecretRolesGrowingDangerConsequenceAbusePreparationCriticizeMeaninglessCensorshipTabooShamefulIncessantlyOverstepping Author:Christa Wolf