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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.
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.
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led read more
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
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.
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.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.