Quotes About Regret

Not being able to forgive yourself for your boneheaded, arrogant, and selfish actions is one of the biggest inhibitors to living the life God most wants you to live.

Regret-free living isn't found by continuing to do flawed things, then simply "working through" the regret they cause and moving on.

One of the prices you have to pay for a life free of oppressive regret is a thorough and brutally honest survey of the entire history of whatever relationship is troubling your soul.

If you're feeling regret about something you did or said to someone, please talk with that person. Tell them you're feeling bad. Let them do for you what people really enjoy doing for others: relieving someone of regret.

The more responsibility you take for your choices, the less regret they're likely to cause you.

Love is the only fuel that can keep a difficult relationship running smoothly and regret-free.

Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited...

My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.. in such a way do the days pass.. I see all that I love falling away.. books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited..

We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying

Denorah hates that she'd believed that, once upon a time. And she wants to cry for not getting to believe it anymore. Yes, the deer drank milk, and that left their mouths ringed white. Fuck it. Run, run.

You said this place was haunted," Shooting Glasses tells her. "By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside," Jade says.

You said this place was haunted," Shooting Glasses tells her. "By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside

When we were leaving he shook his head, said it must be great to be young and endlessly stupid.

I hated Darren, and I would have chewed my hand off just to see him one more time.

He backed out, turned around and reversed into the slot, scratching the tires with each gear change, then didn't let himself drink any beer except one, and then another to hide the first, to stop his hands from shaking, and finally just three, to get it over with.

The contrast between these stories is painful but inescapable. It is not only the rainforest that is being chewed up in the industrial machine, but also human cultures 30,000 years old, ways of thinking radically different from Western approaches, plants that may never be seen again, and things that many of us will never know we lost.

What he called his own personal night was about the feeling of being nothing, of having no worth, of having spent himself in a war nobody cared about, and having given up everything that was important and good.

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man. —Peter Townsend, "Behind Blue Eyes

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Demasiados hombres solo se arrepienten a medias de su pecado y luego culpan a Dios por no haber sido liberados. Desean ser libres de la culpa en vez de tener intimidad con su Hacedor. En vez de «divorciarse» del pecado, optan por una «separación temporal»Ã¢â'¬Â¦ hasta más tarde. Se niegan a vivir en la victoria que la gracia de Cristo les ofrece gratuitamente.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.