"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

Regret, Question, Answers, Reflection, Thought

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"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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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

Regret, Sadness, Sorrow, Desire, Death

"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Regret, Health, Parenting, Decision

"I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Regret, Possibility, Fate, Choice

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Discouragement, Soul, Faith, Hope

"Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Regret, Past, Future, Happiness

"Whoever hate, harm himself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Hate, Harm, Self, Negativity

"One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Regret, Mistake, Reflection, Time

"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."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Regret, Reflection, Life, Sadness

"The unspiritual is a slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sin, Darkness, Morality

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Adventure

"Where's your sense of misadventure?"

Adventure

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

Imagination

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

Emotion

"Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?"

Adventure

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

Imagination

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

Experience

"Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know."

Respect

"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

Compassion

"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."

Philosophy