"How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another."

Regret, Decision, Relationship, Loss

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"How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another."

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"Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Time lost can never be regained."

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"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Regret, Pride, Shame, Truth

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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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"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To waste time is to become wasted."

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"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."

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"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me."

Relationship

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

Grief

"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."

Honesty

"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."

Resilience

"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."

Acceptance

"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."

Humor

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

Emotion

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

Identity

"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."

Observation

"Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."

Awareness