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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference read more
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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!".
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.
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry read more
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not read more
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.