Mary Balogh Quotes

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I don't regret any steps that I take in life.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.