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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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• It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

  Archibald Alexander

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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  With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Regret

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Bird, Advice

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

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• No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Strikes, Misfortunes

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• I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

  John F. Kennedy

  Apology, Technology, History

  "Inclusive Growth". Book by Pratheek Praveen Kumar, p. 18,

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• How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Forgiveness, Sorrow, Doe

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Animal

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• I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Mean, Apology

  What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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• I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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• We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Often Is, Wish

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

  Robin Quivers

  Im Sorry, Apology, Might

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• My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

  Bruce Willis

  Love, Wife, Heard

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• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Humorous, Mean

  The Man Upstairs (1914) title story

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

  D. H. Lawrence

  Saws, Self Pity, Wild Things

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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• An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

  Lynn Johnston

  Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry

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• Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

  Erich Segal

  Love, Sad, Mean

  Love Story ch. 13 (1970). In the motion picture this line was changed to "Love means never having to say you're sorry" and become famous in this form.

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  H. G. Wells

  Wise, War, Adversity

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• I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Apology, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

  Sitting Bull

  Im Sorry, Native American, I Am Sorry

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