Regrets Quotes
375 quotes
"One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people."
"When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret."
"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."
"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."
"The sunset sky fades from blue to orange over Gainesville, Florida, and what I lost is less than what I gained. I gained love, I lost love, and if could do it all again, I would."
"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
"This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts."
"I regret to say I'munable to reply to your unexpressed desires."
"I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them."
"Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."
"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."
"Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact."
"Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES!"
"I didnt give up, because i had nothing, i was no body. But for the fact i was no body and i had nothing. It made me work harder to have something and to be someone. I worked harder more than anyone who had anything. It matters how you view or see things.same thing might not look the same . It depend which angle you are looking them from."
"Never cheat on someone that is good to you ,Karma is a bitch."
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered."
"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."
"If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets."
"If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice"
"Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted blackSome of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today's masterpiece has been cast."
"The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home."
"This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over."
"Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption."
"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
"In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live."
"I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better."
"You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady."
"I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front."
"Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams"
"It's so touching to see so much regret in the eyes of people when they say. 'I have no regrets in life"
"I have no regrets. Every experience is the wrong-path is chance to turn to right route for the ultimate travel to the destined-land."
"Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things..."
"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed... Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.."
"Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all."
"If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regret it. If you don’t convert your time into products you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it."
"If you don’t want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!"
"If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it."
"If you don’t convert your time into products, you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life, you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it."
"If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life."
"Every man must choose what they want to do with their time to avoid regret in the future."
"If you desire to be great in life and live a life of no regret the number one thing you should do with time is to INVEST TIME."
"When you can actually monitor your passing life and be in control and be in charge of your time and making sure that you are actually converting every passing day into something, then you will never regret it."
"The only thing you can do with the dreams when you realize it’s already morning is to regret wasting your life while you had all the time."
"Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively"
"Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams."
"People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our lives. But, the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life."
"People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our life. But the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life."
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