People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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Sarah Addison Allen
Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.
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Elizabeth Yates
It's too late. I chose life too late.
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Cat Clarke
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections....
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Emma Jung
The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.
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Germaine Greer
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