Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

No matterwhat he did to make Claire’s life better or show her he’d changed, these memories would always linger in the recesses of his mind. For the rest of his life, he’d know what he’d...

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

I could have could haved, but instead I did have. Is there any other way to love?

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…. I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it...

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, ’cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us...

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won’t be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I’d gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I’d be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in...

Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Acknowledge yourself for your greatness and your instincts and know that you always do your best even when the outcomes don’t appear that way.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for”-Samar Sudha

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Who said death is dead? He’s fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better...

Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other...

Regret is a commonality that all humans share, I myself have many. Through out my life I have made many mistakes some little and some infinite. There are those you can change and those that...

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her...

Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer’s, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn’t trade any of this in for some other,...

It’s regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst–the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn’t read all the good books in this lifetime.

Don’t burn bridges, because you may have to walk over it one day.

When you’re on your deathbed, you won’t regret not having spent more time cleaning. Buy brown carpet, to camouflage the coffee stains.

I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet,...

El arrepentimiento es un concepto que no me gusta: significa que no asumimos lo que hemos sido

Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘Are you asking me if I wish I’d never done it?’‘I’m just wondering if it...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

It’s not love at first sight, it’s having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

The brave don’t live forever but the cautious don’t live at all. The only thing that’s truly terrifying is the unlived life.

It’s amazing how, over the course of one’s life, you collect so much music you don’t like, so many movies you don’t watch and so many books you have no intention of reading. If only...

Happiness has never been a product of a mind that’s full of grudges and regrets.

Empty night, Harry. Didn’t your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?”I scowled some more. “Like what?””Like life is short,” he [Thomas] said. “Like you don’t know when it’s going to end....

Dirck’s thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn’t there or she’d die, too. He shuddered to think of how she’d feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He’d never...

We’ve all done things we’d rather keep in the dark. It’s only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it’s rare that we’re listened to.

Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn’t.

I have no regrets. Just original grets.

Voyez-vous, lorsqu’on a trop réussi sa vie,On sent, — n’ayant rien fait mon Dieu de vraiment mal! –Mille petits dégoûts de soi, dont le totalNe fait pas un remords, mais une gêne obscure ;Et les...

Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.

If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You...

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content...

There’s no regrets for me.

Don’t have regrets in life, only lessons learned.