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.

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn’t love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn’t save them from themselves.

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

In life, I regret the things I didn’t do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

Čovjek je proklet, i žali za svim putevima kojima nije prošao.

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

People’s most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long...

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what...

People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.

If I knew I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-...

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too long.

Is there such a thing as a life without any regrets? I’ve never believed so. We spend our lives aiming for happiness and fulfilment in work, in love and with our friends and family, and...

Benj had once said, “A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he’s alone on a hillside and draws it out he’ll want treasures to be his company,...

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it’s a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the...

Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.

Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that...

…I live with regrets – the bittersweet loss of innocence – the red track of the moon upon the lake – the inability to return and do it again…

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like… like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it?

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

Dead ButterflyBy Ellen BassFor months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend’s house. At the dinner table it sat like...

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.

When you’re lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep… “I should have” “If only I’d” “I wish I’d”…grab one of them and turn it into an “I...

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in...

Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn’t it? Shadows grow faces.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

Warlock: Four thousand and fifty-three metric tons of inert rock, metal and organic matter, frozen solid.Quasar: Frozen in what?Drax: Time.Quasar: “Time”, Drax?Drax: Uh-huh. Old, old frozen time.Quasar: Right. And that tastes like what?Drax: Regret.

In every dream you pursue, you attract its respective version of opposition. Going back will not solve any problem; Regrets will not change anything either; Feeling of Superiority over every obstacle should be your priority!

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

A veces, el arrepentimiento por hacer o dejar de hacer algo puede durar una eternidad

Don’t risk your life for those that doesn’t love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Sometimes, laughing like a lunatic can be the best solution. Or crying loudly into a pillow. But don’t regret anything. Always tell yourself “I. Regret. Nothing.” because really, no matter how sucky, or crappy your...

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...

Regrets… Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is...

Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!

Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

I will not live the rest of my life in regret.

It should make you shake and sweat,nightmare you, strand you in the desertof irrevocable desolation, the consequencesseared into the vein, no matter what adrenalinefeeds the muscle its courage, no matterwhat god shines down on you,...

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

I can’t remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Look forward, not back,” the Hag said. “All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.