"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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"Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence."

Anais Nin, American Author

Regret, Confidence, Life, Choice

"One always wonders about roads not taken."

Warren Christopher, American Statesman

Regret, Wonders

"Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

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"Regret isn't real,' Tuck said. 'It's something invented to punish ourselves."

Robin Bielman, American Novelist

Regret, Forgiveness, Healing, Acceptance

"I want a chance to do it all again. To do it right."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

Regret, Desire, Opportunity, Change

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Doubt, Divinity, Faith, Truth

"Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Next time I want to do something nice, slap me."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Mark Twain

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

Wisdom

"Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again."

Repetition

"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."

Nature

"It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another."

Emotion

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Food

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Empathy

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Writing

"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Animals

"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also."

Work

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Life