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• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975)

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• Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Sick

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Moving On, Opportunity, Soul

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, tell me not that memory
  Sheds gladness o'er the past;
  What is recalled by faded flowers,
  Save that they did not last?
  Were it not better to forget,
  Than but remember and regret?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Remember, Forget

  "Ethel Churchill, Or, The Two Brides".

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• Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

  Arthur Waley

  Pain, Past, Thinking

  The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley (2012). “Chinese Poems”, p.177, Routledge

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• Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Past, Hands, Worry

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• The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Mirrors, Perfect

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• A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Differences

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sleep, Insomnia, Bed Sheets

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Average, Tragedy

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• There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

  George MacDonald

  Pain

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• It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

  Robert Menzies

  Hope, Wisdom, Truth

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• When I remember something which I had,
  But which is gone, and I must do without,
  I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
  Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
  It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet
  My days will not be better days, should I forget.

  Jean Ingelow

  Thinking, Remember Something, Gone

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Kids, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Break Up

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moments, Savoring, Torment

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  Yoko Ono

  Love You, Life Is, Enough

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2001.

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• Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Angel, Second Chance, Decision

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Erm, I don't really have any regrets.

  Bobby Farrelly

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• I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

  Liz Garbus

  Taken, Artist, Thinking

  "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Too Late, All Alone, Plates

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• I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Years, Training, Film And Television

  "Charlotte Rampling (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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