Quotes in this theme
Regret and Guilt
Hannah Arendt
our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover.
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Lewis Thomas
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.
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Saul Bellow
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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William Wordsworth
The wiser mind mourns less for what Age takes away, than what it leaves behind.
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Jim Rohn
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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Jim Rohn
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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Katherine Mansfield
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
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Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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