Regrets Quotes - Page 3

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

No doing without some ruing.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead that is where your future lies.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.

Ji Kang

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Alexandra Ripley

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Anonymous

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

Katherine Mansfield

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

John Oliver Hobbes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The horror of that moment the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen said "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment take it off and let it drop.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

Anonymous

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make the same mistakes only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.

Emma Jung

The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

It really sucks when good things are being hated over the bad one.

Ridhdhesh Jivawala

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Jennifer Aniston

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

Better safe than sorry!

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

We're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life.

Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer's, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn't trade any of this in for some other, curable disease, what did she want? Assuming the in vitro procedure worked, she wanted to live to hold Anna's baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted one more sabbatical year with John. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.She laughed a little, surprised at what she'd just revealed about herself. Nowhere in that list was anything about linguistics, teaching, or Harvard. She ate her last bite of cone. She wanted more sunny, seventy-degree days and ice-cream cones.

Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.

Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.― Marilyn Monroe

Sherri Sue Fisher

Do not be discouraged by the disappointments you meet. Don't ever loose hope because, you missed opportunities. Disappointment and missing opportunities are all essential components of life. They give us the reasons to reason and they teach us the best lessons in life. They give a clear distinction between the wonder and the wander. When you meet disappointments, ponder! you may be on the great bath to that great appointment.Instead of being disappointed by disappointments, find the 'this appointment' disappointments show you. Instead of crying over missing and missed opportunities, let missing and missed opportunities miss you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

Timothy Schaffert

Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't heard from me in months. The precarious laughter as she comes from the kitchen, when I finally do appear on her doorstep, the laughter that says I might be a chickadee that's alighted unexpectedly on her thumb.

My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown.

We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

Bo Schembechler

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

Anthony T.Hincks

What are we going to do, Ayden?" she whispered, glaring up at me."I don't know," I confessed. "But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?""I thought it was 'cross' that bridge?"I lightly poked her in the eye and she laughed. "No. We're burning bridges. Crossing is so overrated." I smiled and touched the corner of her eyes, captivated by the iridescent blues."I think I like the sound of that," she whispered."Yeah?""Yeah.

Nadège Richards

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