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Regret Quotes
"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing 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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"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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"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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"Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter."
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"Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they're situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don't be so hard on yourself it's not a perfect world."
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"Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life's circumstances?"
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"One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret."
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"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."
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"Too often we give up due to temporal challenge."
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"If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight."
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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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"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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"In every way that counted, I failed him."
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"Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy."
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"Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said."
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"Our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets."
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"Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say "God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me"."
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"Reckless youth makes rueful age."
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"There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish."
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"The insanity of shameful desires!"
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"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."
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"Regret isn't real,' Tuck said. 'It's something invented to punish ourselves."
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"I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?"
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"You deserve a longer letter than this, but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."
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"God is the God of multiplication and a careless attitude toward the business of the kingdom bring regret to Him."
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