I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Trying to change before you're ready isn't likely to be productive. For example, most New Year's resolutions don't last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it's going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure.
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
