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Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it. -- Mason Cooley
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs. -- Elin Hilderbrand
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. -- Cara Delevingne
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen. -- Virgil Thomson
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing. -- Rick Springfield
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. -- Henry David Thoreau
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. -- E. W. Howe
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them. -- Christian Louboutin
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life. -- Robin Marantz Henig
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. -- Robbie Williams
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. -- Michael Caine
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. -- Walter Cronkite
I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough. -- Lulu
In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see. -- Jane Green
When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands. -- Sebastian Vettel
I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me. -- Helen Hunt
At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that. -- David Blunkett
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.' -- Daniel Craig
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? -- Sarah Ferguson
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait. -- Robert Winston
You're not living if you're not regretting. -- Nicola Yoon
Better ten days of love than years of regretting. -- Robert Jordan
If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in. -- Marianne Williamson
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. -- Francisco de Quevedo
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it. -- Jeaniene Frost
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do. -- Samantha Leahy
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered. -- Bill Russell
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. -- Jon Ronson
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I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it. -- Charlie Munger
There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses. -- Muriel Wace
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in -- Laura Marling
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least. -- Jim Goad
When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly. -- Lysa TerKeurst
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry. -- Taylor Swift
In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing. -- Mike Colter
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye. -- Martin Amis
In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later. -- Rory McIlroy
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. -- Arthur Brisbane
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. -- Jon Foreman
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. -- Jerome K. Jerome
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I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself. -- Brittany Finamore
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now. -- Gay Hendricks
Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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