“The only way to kill me was to welcome his own death, and he did it the moment the chance arose.”
Source: Black Legion
“I, too, kept searching for the formula—the one that would allow me to calculate, once and for all, my limits. If I knew that I had run as fast as my body was capable of, I reasoned, I’d be able to walk away from the sport with no regrets.”
Source: Endure By Alex Hutchinson & The Rise of Superman By Steven Kotler 2 Books Collection Set
“Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“His soul had plummeted into a bottomless, black pit. Regret and sorrow crept into his heart, as he clawed his way back to the light.”
“That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“if i had known, if
i had known you, i would have
left my love at home.
-Haiku”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“So bitter is the taste in my mouth, when I remember making that choice.”
Source: Ellipsis
“... and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence.”
Source: The Black Arrow
“Life is not fair. You can keep regretting it but absolutely nothing will change. You can keep trying but If it has not worked for you till now, most probably it will not work in the future as well.”
“Regret is about the past, anxiety is about the future, curiosity is about now.”
Source: Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity