Regret

(224 votes)   Never live for yesterday.

Anonymous

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(119 votes)   The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(117 votes)   To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(113 votes)   The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.

David Viscott
American Author, Speaker, Trainer

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(93 votes)   I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(91 votes)   Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(89 votes)   We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(88 votes)   You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

Wayne Dyer
1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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(84 votes)   For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(84 votes)   Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author

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(83 votes)   It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Oscar Levant
1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor

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(82 votes)   The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.

Joe Karbo
1925-1980, American Businessman, Author

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(81 votes)   Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(61 votes)   People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

Barbara Sher
American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was''

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(51 votes)   Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.

Max L. Lucado
American Author of ''The Eye of the Storm''

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