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"No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future."
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"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been."

"When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"

"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'."
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"View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I thinking, breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, 'What was I learning?"

"Do what you can to avoid or neutralize conversations which put people down. Think with your heart."

"You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey."

"If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness."

"Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in."

"You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds."

"It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others."
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