#epa

The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare. ↗

— Juma Ikangaa

#preparation #inspirational

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #preparedness #life

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #loss #love #pain #separation

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#deepak-chopra #humanity #life #people #quote

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me. ↗

— Sangu Mandanna

#sacrifice #separation #life

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender #friendship #game #loss #separation

When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life. ↗

— Patti Smith

#playwriting #sam-shepard #life

I love to explore new and strange things in detail. This habit reduces element of surprises in my life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#prepared-mind #life

The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes ↗

— Tshepang Sharon Koji

#separation #life

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#separation #sunset #love