The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.
I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.
I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'
