Absolutely! And don't fret about what you don't have, what you aren't, and where you used to be or wish you were.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Some good book is usually responsible for the success of every really great man.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

"O Stars and Dreams and Gentle Night; O Night and Stars return!"

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Get a life — and the only way to really get a life — is by giving away the one you have.

You’ve never lost if you’ve learned. You’ve never failed if you’ve let your feet find the floor again come morning.

Sometimes God will calm the storm for you, but sometimes God will calm you for the storm.
Sometimes God calms the storms — and sometimes the storm stills swirl and He calms our fears.

I onward go, I stop,
With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,
One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.

I have a new one!

Lady Kitra Skene: Novels age like wine and cheese. They come like wizards and snarky cats. You can't microwave them or tell them when to arrive. They'll come when they are finished.

Don't trust everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln.

That's one of my favorites.

"Do what you need to do today. If you put it off until tomorrow it will never be done, for tomorrow never comes."
- Paul Bridger, a Crystal Falls citizen

"Do now what is to be done. Put it off til later and you will soon find that later is gone."

Assorted Scooby-Doo villains: ...and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

"Getting punched really hurts. Getting hit with a crowbar hurts more."- Trajectory

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

If I had a yearbook to put a senior quote in, I'd quote this: "I eat the meat of depressed bears because their psychological problems are great for your skin." ~ Lady Kitra Skene

Never is a long time. I’ll be here at the end of it.

I may sound old-fashioned, but I want to think all women should be treated like I want my wife, daughters and granddaughters to be treated. I notice today that good manners -- like standing up when a woman enters the room, helping a woman with her coat, letting her enter an elevator first, taking her arm to cross the street -- are sometimes considered unnecessary or a throwback. These are habits I could never break, nor would I want to. I realize today a lot more women are taking care of themselves than in the past, but no woman is offended by politeness.

All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,—
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.

*Slips in* I know most of the folks who are active on here nowadays probably don't know me, but I've been reading through the book Experiencing God and stumbled across this gem so I thought I'd throw it in here:

"Your life is too valuable to waste by trusting your own best thinking."