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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that read more
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell read more
People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.