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Regret Quotes
"You're going to mess up in life. We're all going to do things and wonder why we did something so stupid. There's going to be times we say things that leave us feeling regretful. We're going to feel mad at ourselves and even shameful at our own actions. Never be too proud to say you're sorry or I love you. These are easy words that strengthen our heart, and give us peace and wisdom."
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"Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly, repent and move on."
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"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
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"Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction."
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"I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I'm sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I'm sorry we didn't work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram."
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"What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done."
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"Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!"
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"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?"
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"I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."
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"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
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"It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying."
12
"Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me."
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"Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable."
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"It is foolish to regret anything form one's past."
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"When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes."
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"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
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"What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more."
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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."
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"I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely."
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"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!"
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"The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it."
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"Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches."
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"Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter."
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"That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight."
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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."
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"I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late."
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"I am so filled with wrong I don't remember what right is."
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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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"Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing."
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