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
More Quotes By Katherine Mansfield
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others. .. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."( Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!
Isn't life, ' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.' Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.
I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
