A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
准备
Readiness
Be in readiness for favorable winds.
要为有利的风做好准备。
It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
养一只猫比养许多老鼠好。
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
眼睛只看到心灵准备去理解的东西。
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
担忧并不意味着恐惧，而是为对抗做好准备。
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
如果你今天没有准备好，明天就更不用说了。
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
老年人对年轻人说话，死人也要对活人说话。
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
我们所处的环境符合我们的期望和天性的要求。
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
人之所以变得文明，不是因为他们愿意相信，而是因为他们愿意怀疑。
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
昨天接受一个观点的人和明天接受同样观点的人之间的争吵是最激烈的。
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
如果我们等待另一个人或另一个时间，改变就不会到来。我们就是我们一直在等待的那个人。我们就是我们所追求的改变。
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
我注意到人类之间最大的不同不在于他们愿意犯错误，而在于他们愿意承认这些不可避免的错误。
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
很多人死的时候音乐还在。为什么会这样?通常是因为他们总是在为生活做准备。在他们意识到之前，时间已经不多了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
福斯特不过是把茶壶暖了暖而已。他在这方面是个罕见的高手。觉得这茶壶。天气不是很暖和吗?是的，但是不会没有茶的。