487 Quotes About Regrets

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

You can always get another job, but you can’t get another life.

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.

Here’s to the person you might have been, and to the person you have become. May they never meet in a dark alley.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted black Some of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today's masterpiece has been cast.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.