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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.
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.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
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.
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!".
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.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of read more
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.