Regret Quotes
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I am embarrassed about it. I am very sorry about it, all right?
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The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.
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But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
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Regret is a tough emotion to live down: it haunts you in ways that will sap your strength and inspiration to go on to better things.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.
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True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
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I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
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Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
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I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.
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I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.
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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
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Regret is just a waste of time for fools.
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There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.
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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
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You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.
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I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!
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I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.
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If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
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So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.
