“Nothing is so disheartening as to rake over dead ashes, to realize that what is past is gone and can be recalled, especially youth and all the freedom and the reckless, heady luxury of life that goes with it.”
–Ernest Haycox (Return of a Fighter)
“Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.”
–Ecclesiastes 11:9 (HCSB)