a preparation QUOTES

1 " The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Four Loves

2 " A struggle is a preparation for what is yet to come.-Lisa " Left Eye" Lopes "

3 " Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it! "

― Israelmore Ayivor , Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

4 " This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities. "

― Carl Sagan , Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

5 " Work like playing a video game, we can't move to a higher level by skipping or being bad at lower levels, the lower levels are made easy to polish our skill sets & analytic skills, like a video game treat even the daily routine work as a preparation to be battle worthy for the tougher stages, never pick & chose the occasion or situation to perform better. "

6 " Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on! "

― Lailah Gifty Akita ,

7 " Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head! "

― Israelmore Ayivor , Daily Drive 365

8 " The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities. "

― Bertrand Russell , Marriage and Morals

9 " A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. "

― Elbert Hubbard

10 " Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling. "

― , No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever

11 " The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God. "

― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes

12 " This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. "

― Albert Einstein , Why Socialism?

13 " An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen million years was a preparation for him; but that would be just like an oyster, which is the most conceited animal there is, except man. And anyway, this one could not know, at that early date, that he was only an incident in a scheme, and that there was some more in the scheme yet. "

― Mark Twain , Tom Sawyer, Detective

14 " Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior
experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing. "

― William Goldman , The Princess Bride

15 " Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever. "

― Orlando Figes , A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

16 " Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. "

― Hermann Hesse , Siddhartha

17 " We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. "

18 " All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course. "

19 " Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "