2,008 Quotes About Regret

  • Author Eckhart Tolle
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    Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

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  • Author Eckhart Tolle
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    All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

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  • Author Kenneth Turan
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    Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

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  • Author Kristin Scott Thomas
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    Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

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  • Author Lynne Truss
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    Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

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