Quotes about regret
regret war ambition
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war. Jack Kornfield
regret moving past
When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path. Jack Davenport
regrets
It was a done deal. Now Patrick regrets what happened. Joe Roberts
regret future past
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. Madeleine L'Engle
regret book dvds
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies. Lynne Truss
regret character ideas
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me. Lucy Punch
regret mistake should
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. Lucy Maud Montgomery
regret dont-regret fellas
I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets. Lou Dobbs
regret past destiny
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way. NO DAY but TODAY Jonathan Larson
regret hours clock
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. Jonathan Franzen
regret book successful
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. Jonathan Coe
regret heart hands
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. Jonathan Carroll
regret backwards believer
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. Kate Winslet
regret decision life-is
Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.
regret kids wish
My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had. Perry Como
regret mistake people
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] Mary Catherine Bateson
regret atheism disbelief
I regret my disbelief in God. Peter Medawar
regret thinking missing
She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. Paulo Coelho
regret doors keys
When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret
regret differences tears
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears
regret inspiration warrior
A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill.
regret warrior past
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.
regret men land
Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land. Phil Ochs
regret love-you sleep
I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love. R. A. Salvatore
regret believe moving
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden
regret doubt looks
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked. Quentin Crisp
regret struggle hands
Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese. Pol Pot
regret waste wasting-time
Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating Pierce Brosnan
regret temptation moments
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain. Phoebe Cary
regret lying philosophy
Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me. Jimmy Buffett
regret past opportunity
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today. Jim Rohn
regret writing past
Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is why most of us don't. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present.
regret pain two
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.