"Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last."

Regret, Honesty, Integrity, Loss

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"Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last."

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"I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Regret, Loss, Innocence, Memory

"The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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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"Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen."

Fear

"Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead."

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"What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?"

Perception

"HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,WHENdid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the personWHOlives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect."

Self-Love

"I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most."

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"In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to."

Resilience

"Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear."

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