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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of read more
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - read more
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop read more
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in read more
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.