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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Done, Probability

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.362

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• I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

  Samuel Butler

  Sorry, Believe, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.

  Robin Roberts

  Answers, Fearful

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• Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.

  Montel Williams

  Life, Motivational, And Love

  FaceBook post by Montel Williams from Sep 02, 2010

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Links, Existence, Sweetest

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.104

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• I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

  Lucille Ball

  Talent, Appreciative, Passing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Heart, Hands, Half

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• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Pleasure, Remorse

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• Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Agreement, Abuse

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

  Emile Zola

  Perfection, Smoking, Nuisance

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• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  Harpo Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Harpo Speaks!".

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• I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

  Rory Cochrane

  Life Changing, Positive Life, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's the things one might have said that fester.

  Clemence Dane

  Might, Said, I Regret

  "A Bill of Divorcement: A Play".

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• Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  Als, Spirit, Wells

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Blessing, Creating, Doubt

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Sad, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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• I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Country, Grieving

  "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

  Quentin Crisp

  Doubt, Want, Inward

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• A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Lying, Past

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Pain, Real

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

  Bob Hastings

  Positive, Divorce, Thieves

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• There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Left Behind, Behinds, No Regrets

  "My Days".

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