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“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
Oscar Wilde
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
Mercedes Lackey
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.”
Katherine Mansfield
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
Jonathan Larson
“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.”
Wayne Dyer
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
Victoria Holt
“Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous”
Wilhelm Stekel
“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”
Cameron Diaz
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets”
D.H. Lawrence
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
Barbara De Angelis
