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Maybe all one
can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
-- Arthur Miller
1915-, American Dramatist
There is no
man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth
said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is
so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if
he could, expunge it from his memory.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
Let's not
burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
People have to
face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what
you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to
love life as it really happens, not as you would have it
happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's
angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their
anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind
criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its
purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to
punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle
between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle
at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life
is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes
wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your
day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss.
It's just another day.
-- Barbara Sher
American Author of "I Could
Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"
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The bitterest
tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist,
Antislavery Campaigner
Make the most
of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and
cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral
interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
To regret
deeply is to live afresh.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
The worst
thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one
wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt
wondering if something could have materialized -- and never
knowing.
-- David Viscott
American Author, Speaker,
Trainer
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