“In one way or other I was going to have to confront every one of the things I had deemed worth keeping--or, at least, not worth the distress of deciding about--and reevaluate it. Over and over again. Although I have yet to figure out what drives my compulsion to save, I know this much: it is the thought of making a bad decision, one that I will some day regret, that keeps me up at night.”
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“Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.”
“Do what needs to be done today so tomorrow will have no regrets .”
“Grief is freeing, but regret is the cul de sac of despair.”
“If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.”
“Every second wasted might have saved a life.”
“Regrets, it seems, are easy to realise when you're dying.”