“I'm ready - to love you.
I'm ready - to hold you.
I'm ready - I'm ready.
Ready as I'm gonna be.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
I'm Ready
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
“You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
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Not until I'm ready for you
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Franklin himself calls this an "old maxim" when he repeats it at page 48 http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page48.htm of his autobiography. <br class="br">Franklin's recognition of this effect caused it to be named after him. Wikipedia, Ben Franklin Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”
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Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)
“Just because you are available for a relationship doesn't mean you are ready for one.”
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Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 97
