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• Regret is an appalling waste of time.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Waste, Wasting Time

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• My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

  Henry Darrow

  Children, Two, Speak

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• All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

  Marilyn Manson

  Nature, Hate, Men

  Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

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• I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

  Brittany Finamore

  Motivational, Heart, People

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• Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Opportunity, Sin, Lord

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• I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover

  Drake

  Relationship, Happiness, Moving On

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  Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Mistake, Ends

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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• The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

  Jean Borotra

  Tennis, Feelings, Enough

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

  Mary McCarthy

  Thinking, Action, Moments

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 10, 2014

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• Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Acceptance, Accepting

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Motivational, People, Worry

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

  Apology, Enemy, Theatre

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Two, Advice

  "Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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• It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

  Oscar Levant

  Hurt, Don't Regret, You Will Regret

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• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Witty, Latin

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• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  Fay Wray

  Imagination

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• Choose with no regret.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  No Regrets

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon”, p.55, Conari Press

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• I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

  Drew Barrymore

  No Regrets, Have No Regrets

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• The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, May, Way

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.308

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• Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.120, GENERAL PRESS

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• Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

  Robert E. Lee

  Views, Light, World

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.221, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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