Make it a rule of life never to regret-- Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. ~ Margaret C. Banning

To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up. ~ James Thom

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets. ~ Hunter S. Thompson, Salon, 2/3/02

I have always found that if I move with 75% or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. ~ Lee Iacocca

Regrets are so far from reality. ~ Warren Zevon

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

I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets. ~ Lou Dobbs

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. ~ Lucille Ball

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. ~ Clark E. Moustakas

Before you do something stupid, think about whether or not you will be alive tomorrow to regret it. ~ Lauren Dortch

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past. ~ Chinese Proverb

Each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends. It would be regrettable to squander this one chance on someone else’s appearance, someone else’s experience. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. ~ Will Henry

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