"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

Regret, Disappointment, Life, Action

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"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

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"Why do many souls love darkness than the light?"

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"To doubt is to deny the divinity of being."

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"It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that's the sin that can't be forgiven-that I hadn't done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there's no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain-and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world-to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."

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"Men didn't have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

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"Sometimes you do not like the situation. But you have to endure for awhile."

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"When you are angry, be still and do not speak."

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"The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it."

Scott Caan, American Actor

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"She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The more we know, the more we grief."

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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

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"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."

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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

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"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."

Humor

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."

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"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

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"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."

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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

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"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."

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