"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

Regret, Possibility, Hope, Emotion

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"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

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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

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

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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."

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"What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more."

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"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self."

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"The living dead do things without putting life into it."

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"The future is just wasted on some people."

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"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."

Optimism

"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."

Time

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."

Health

"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."

Faith

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Survival

"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."

Philosophy

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."

Philosophy

"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"

Philosophy

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Morality

"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."

Profession