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Positive Quote Wednesday - On RegretsNone of us like to feel regretful. We want to believe our decisions lead us in the right direction. But often that isn’t the case. What do we decide on something that didn’t work out quite as planned…and we hold ourselves responsible? Regret is … an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. GERALD LAWSON SITTSER, A Grace Disguised Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. JOHN O’DONOHUE, Anam Cara Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. SYDNEY J. HARRIS, Sam Horn’s Tongue Fu! Remorse is the poison of life. CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. STEFAN ZWEIG, Stellar Moments in Human History So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for having felt regret today. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Of all Sad Words of Tongue or Pen, the Saddest are these, “It Might Have Been.” GEORGE ADE, More Fables 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, My Confession Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil’s Dictionary Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us … to move forward instead of back. JANE ADAMS, When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us You’ll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it’s a good idea to reread anything you’ve written in anger. MARY MATALIN, Letters to My Daughters Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good. WILLIAM O’ROURKE, Idle Hands
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