Quotes from James A. Owen

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.