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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

Conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. — Charles Darwin

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude. — Frank Hall

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Those who forget the past tend to regret the future — Anne Tyler

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago. — Adele Griffin

When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on. — Kendal Rob

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

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. — Terry Tempest Williams

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra

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

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. — Ken Livingstone

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past. — Carson McCullers

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

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain. — Arthur Waley

When regret dominates your past and worry occupies your future, there is no room to live in your present. — Charles F. Glassman

I never regret my past ... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga

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

Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.
Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering. — Aram Seriteratai

I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future. — Roshani Chokshi

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory. — Michel Faber

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough. — Criss Jami

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. — Ted Chiang

I began to curse the past for passing. — Mara Rostov

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards. — Jonathan Renshaw

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

Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge. — Bryant McGill

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present. — Nicky Gumbel

Don't regret what's happened.
If it's in the past, LET IT GO.
Don't even remember it! — Rumi

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. — Jimi Hendrix

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. — Stephen King

Never regret your past. Rather,
embrace it as the teacher that it is. — Robin S. Sharma

Regrets over the past should chasten the future. — James Ellis

Who would awaken the past?
It shines like a sunrise
And cuts like a fine blade. — Juliet Marillier

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde

The past wasn't a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay. — Sonja Yoerg

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past. — Mary Balogh

Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same. — Tambre Bryant

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

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness. — Anthony Of Padua

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. — Richard Martin Stern

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past. — Sylvia Plath

Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past! — Rihanna

If you still accept the idea of regret, it means you can't yet accept nor forgive your past laxity. — Toba Beta

Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it. — Taylor Swift

The ghost's eyes clouded for a moment, by memory or regret. "Past speaks to the future," she said. "The present is already crumbling. — Ekaterina Sedia

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. — Mick Jagger

Do not linger on regret, my friend," Bronson said. "Go forward and leave the past where it is. — Marcia Lynn McClure

Regret for the past is a waste of spirit for the future .... — Jodie Bain

Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want. — Brenna Yovanoff

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

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back. — Xiaolu Guo

Where does thin become fat? Where does success become failure? Where does a great future become a horrible past full of heartache and regret? — Elena Dunkle

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness. — Irene Hannon

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so. — Winston Graham

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future. — Karen Salmansohn

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

Do not regret the past. Look to the future. — Soyen Shaku

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect. — Mordecai Richler

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey

Our regrets want to bring
back many things we leave behind — Munia Khan

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. — Federico Fellini

Don't regret your past ... It has shaped you. Don't fear your future ... It is yours to shape. — Louise Hansen

Celebrate the past, don't regret it. — Andrew Critchley

It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same. — Sang-Sun Park

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it. — Charlie Munger

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different. — Lily Blake

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. — Madeleine L'Engle

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen

As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future. — Marcel Proust

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. — Daniel J. Levitin

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever. — James A. Owen

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow. — Rachel Joyce

Sooner or later we have to die, and if then we review the past years with regret, it is too late, isn't it? — Dalai Lama XIV

I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it. — Prince Harry

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could've sworn that was where he'd been the past ten years. — Kelly Moran

You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile — Bei Maejor

Never ever regret anything in life that made you smile in your past — Anamika Mishra

I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed. — Nigar Siddiqui

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it. — Mason Cooley

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

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future. — James Altucher

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment — Mark Twain

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret. — Raymond E. Feist

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret. — Vernon Howard

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now. — Marlon Brando

Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface. — Kris Kidd

If you only live to regret your past, you'll never live to love your future. — Edward Grey

We should not regret our mistakes from the past and think about possible opportunities for our future. — Saaif Alam

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. — John O'Donohue

Regret is bringing the bad past to a good present. And nobody wants a bad present — Zion Phoenix

We don't have to be identified by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. — Pittacus Lore