Quotes About Regret

He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139

Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley? Yeah, I mumbled. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.

Time is not something you give back

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved." "Dying, is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.

Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try. He watched his son with heavy-lidded eyes. Eddie, after struggling to find even one sentence to say, did the only thing he could think of to do: He held up his hands and showed his father his grease-stained fingertips.

Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past.

Going back to something is harder than you think. I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.

Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else"—

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I'm getting. Not everyone is as lucky." I

He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if you didn't like it—and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.

I'm so sorry, Sarah gasped, tears pouring down her cheeks. It just felt like... the end. Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm.

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. - Morrie

I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either.

Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.

When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it".

Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.

What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.