Top 40 Past Life Regret Quotes
#1. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.
Shannon A. Thompson
#2. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.
Nina George
#3. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#4. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Marlon Brando
#6. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Ted Chiang
#7. ..the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of
nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.
Luc Ferry
#8. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#9. We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
Pittacus Lore
#10. I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
Alesandro Bariko
#11. I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
Molly Ringwald
#12. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#13. To regret your soul is to regret your past.
Claire North
#14. In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.
Megan Fox
#15. We use to regret over our past ... but sometimes i wonder why ???
because everything we did in past was best from our side, well in case of both doing and thinking ...
Lovely Goyal
#16. Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
Rebecca McNutt
#17. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.
Abraham Hicks
#18. Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.
Steve Maraboli
#19. Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.
John S. Hall
#20. To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
David Whyte
#21. The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.
Criss Jami
#22. Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
Xiaolu Guo
#23. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
#24. A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ... the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
Evelyn Underhill
#25. Do not pity me, Beatrice De Novo. My life has been as fate dictated, and now I am master of it. Do not waste your regret on the past.
Elizabeth Hunter
#26. My dad's primary emotion is regret. It's like he made some giant mistake in his past, like he took a wrong turn, and instead of ending up wherever he was supposed to be, he ended up in this life [...] instead.
Nicola Yoon
#27. You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile
Bei Maejor
#28. For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.
Edmund Morris
#29. I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.
Lisa J. Shultz
#30. She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
Dave Eggers
#31. Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
#32. Never ever regret anything in life that made you smile in your past
Anamika Mishra
#33. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
#34. The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much
Mel Gibson
#35. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.
Dennis Lehane
#36. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
Colleen Hoover
#37. When the time is right, life will have a meaning.
When the time is right, world will be bright again.
When the time is right, things will fall into place.
Just remember, never regret.
Akash Lakhotia
#38. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
Toba Beta
#39. He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
Jonathan Renshaw
#40. I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
Kathryn Schulz
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