- “There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.” ― Andrei Ludu, Boundaries of a Complex World
- “Well, it’s true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it’s also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It’s like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I’ll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness… those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
- “There is no better time to regret, no matter how much you have failed or improved your situation.” ― Kangoma Kindembo
- “Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ” ― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet
- If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures. Musonius Rufus
- My old high school football coach used to say … If you give it everything you have and you fail you’ll have one night of bad sleep but if you don’t give it everything you have and you fail you will think about how you should have for the rest of your life. Shane Parrish
- The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation: he, therefore, is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. Oliver Goldsmith
- The greatest freedoms are freedom from regret, freedom from fear, freedom from anxiety, and freedom from sorrow. Thich Nhat Hanh
- When it comes to regrets, it’s the dreams we didn’t go after that haunt us — the business we didn’t start, the book we didn’t write, the love we let slip away. When pursuing your dreams you won’t remember the bruises and failures, only the person you become. Shane Parrish
- Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami
- “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” ― Omar Khayyám
- “When dealing with love and relationship. Hurting and betraying a great woman can lead you to a painful life of regret.” ― Angel Moreira
- My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. Ernest Hemingway
- “No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain would I lay down my miserable life, for I envy those who enjoy the quiet of the Grave: But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean; The Waves throw me back with abhorrence upon the shore: I rush into fire; The flames recoil at my approach: I oppose myself to the fury of Banditti; Their swords become blunted, and break against my breast: The hungry Tiger shudders at my approach, and the Alligator flies from a Monster more horrible than itself. God has set his seal upon me, and all his Creatures respect this fatal mark!” ― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk
- “Don’t live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
- There are two ways to achieve calm: one is to never do what you regret, the other to never regret what you do. August Strindberg
- “Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- Judging is easy. Executing is hard. That’s why the majority have regrets. Maxime Lagacé
- “Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.” ― Gretchen McNeil, Possess
- “I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.” ― Alberto Caeiro, O Pastor Amoroso
- “I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.” ― Erica Goros
- “If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
- “Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains… if only one could leave this life slowly!” ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
- “الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ” ― مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان
- If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it. Søren Kierkegaard
- “You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.” ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- “Men didn’t have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
- I don’t believe in regrets. Regrets just keep you chained to the past. You gotta make peace with the past. There’s no reason to regret it. You’ve done it, just make peace with it. Bob Dylan
- Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many. Unknown