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Quotes About Regret

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before. She heard Mrs Elm's voice, from under the table somewhere far behind her, cutting through the noise. 'Don't give up! Don't you dare give up, Nora Seed!' She didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.
~ Matt Haig
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the kens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, as infinitum, until our time runs out.
~ Matt Haig
A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news
~ Matt Haig
Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.
~ Matt Haig
You are you. The past is the past. The only way to make a better life is from inside the present. To focus on regret does nothing but turn that very present into another thing you will wish you did differently. Accept your own reality. Be human enough to make mistakes. Be human enough not to dread the future. Be human enough to be, well, enough. Accepting where you are in life makes it so much easier to be happy for other people without feeling terrible about yourself.
~ Matt Haig
You will regret the fear. In The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware—a nurse who worked in palliative care—shared her experience of talking to those near the end of their lives. Far and away the biggest regret they had was fear. Many of Bronnie's patients were in deep anguish that they had spent their whole lives worrying. Lives consumed by fear. Worrying what other people thought of them. A worry that had stopped them being true to themselves.
~ Matt Haig
And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books.
~ Matt Haig
It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living.
~ Matt Haig
I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.
~ Matt Haig
But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.
~ Matt Haig
But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other peoples worst enemy. We. can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.
~ Matt Haig
I regret feeling so much guilt.
~ Matt Haig
But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.
~ Matt Haig
But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
~ Matt Haig
I regret not having a gap year after university.
~ Matt Haig
I regret my financial mismanagement.
~ Matt Haig
Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term
~ Matt Haig
Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.
~ Matt Haig
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
~ Matt Haig
Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
~ Matt Haig
another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
~ Matt Haig
Entre a vida e a morte, há uma biblioteca — disse ela. — E, dentro dessa biblioteca, as prateleiras não têm fim. Cada livro oferece uma oportunidade de experimentar outra vida que você poderia ter vivido. De ver como as coisas seriam se tivesse feito outras escolhas... Você teria feito algo diferente, se houvesse a chance de desfazer tudo de que se arrepende?
~ Matt Haig
Is there a life where we are still together?
~ Matt Haig
Do you ever think 'how did I end up here'? Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?... Do you? Or is this maze just for me?
~ Matt Haig