“Maybe I wasn’t ready then, but it didn’t mean I was never going to get there.”— Lindsey Sterling, lewishowes.com
“I like to think the world wasn’t ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn’t ready for the world. I’ve always arrived too late for my life.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.”— Tara Brach, psychologytoday.com
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com