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.

There’s no regrets for me.

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

Pero cuando enfermé y los temores de la muerte se presentaron a mis ojos; cuando mis ánimos cedieron ante la fuerza de tan grave mal y mi resistencia se agotó con la fiebre, la conciencia...

A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched...

She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined.

Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.

Regret isn’t real. It’s something invented to punish ourselves

Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.

[S]ometimes people make a mistake for so long that it starts to feel like it’s not a mistake at all. And then one day, you tell yourself it’s for the best.

One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret!

Sometimes it’s better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don’t think us impervious / unapproachable – be real / open

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.

He had no idea about the ‘loving deeply’ part. Scarlet was the one love he’d had. They’d married the weekend after they’d discovered they both like sangria. He’d thought they were waltzing through life and...

I’m a person who tries not to have regrets.

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...

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there’s no need to fret...

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

I’ll watch the Final Four when there are three teams playing at once for two titles and one large bag of regrets. That bag is mostly full of air, like a bag of potato chips,...

I regret to say I’munable to reply to your unexpressed desires.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can’t but back with them what you most desire.

What if you can’t, Austin? You can’t help everyone.””At least I’ll know I tried.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

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.

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.

There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit

I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I think it’s very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.

Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it’s like a bullet that ricochets off time’s walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

It’s too late.I chose life too late.

[she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things...

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.

Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can’t blame yourself...

I won’t say anything that I will regret tomorrow

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them....

What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

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...

People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn’t make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

You’re right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won’t work. You’ll just end...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he’d ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason...

I will always have two regrets. I don’t have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

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.