"What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless."

Regret, Mourning, Loss, Values

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"What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless."

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"You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost."

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"The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?"

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"Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you."

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"One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different."

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"I...will never...regret you."

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"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me."

Ian McEwan, British Author

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"Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they're situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don't be so hard on yourself it's not a perfect world."

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Regret, Learning, Compassion, Acceptance

"There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Our regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind."

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