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• I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.

  David Gemmell

  Pain, Father, Love You

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• But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Loss, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

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• Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

  Michael Pollan

  Pain, Self, Suffering

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• you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Dangerous World, Want

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• For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

  Nick Hornby

  Years, Opposites, Courses

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• the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

  Claude Monet

  Littles, I Regret, Knows

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• Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Past, Fruit

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”

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• No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

  Maya Banks

  Don't Regret, Things To Do, Right Thing

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• I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it. I can fill your every longing , heal your every wound, right your every wrong. You have enemies? Not with me at your side. You have hunger? I will find the most succulent, ripe morsel and feed you with my bare hands. You have pain? I will ease it. Bad dreams? I will chase them asunder. Regrets? I will go back and undo them. Command me, Beauty, and I am yours. -Adam Black

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dream, Pain, Men

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• Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Should Have, Decision, Different

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.198, Penguin

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• Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

  Chief Seattle

  Destiny, Men, White Man

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• There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

  Kate Chopin

  Kissing, Dull, Cups

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.219

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• And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not." Fang rolled his eyes.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Two, Numbers

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• Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

  James Dean

  Dream, Life Is Short, Kissing

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Healing, Riding Your Bike, Cycling

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Strong, Motivation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.97, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?

  Jewel

  Pain, Real, Heart

  "Satisfied". Song by Jewel, 2010.

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• You think I regret saving your life?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Saving, I Regret

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• You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Mistake, Commitment

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Lying, Sadness, Hair

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• Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Teenager, Moving, School

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.90, Bantam

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• I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

  Leonard Cohen

  Congratulations, Past, Self

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Years, Wish

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• Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sea, Names

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I’m going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Sunshine, Winter

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