"Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure."
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"When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake."
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"You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger."
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"When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day."
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"My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile."
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"No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused"
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"None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret."
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"Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy."
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"If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret."
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"I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I've been very, very lucky that it doesn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guess."
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"Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame."
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"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
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"I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him."
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"I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease."
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"I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life."
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"It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice."
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"We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home."
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"In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget."
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"Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!"
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"I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion."
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