“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”— Jackie Joyner-Kersee quotes, amazon.com
“Another call, another bed I shouldn't crawl out of At 7AM with shoes in my hand Said I wouldn't do it, but I did it again And I know I'll be back tomorrow night, oh”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”— Jojo Moyes
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.”— Andrew Smith, amazon.com
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late.”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com