Jan Cox Speas quote: No pain is unbearable except that of regret.

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Save the world. What a thought. Was this asteroid really speeding toward Earth on a collision course? Would it really wipe out everything? Could humans really do anything to stop it? It was just too incredible. As she considered the circumstances of her life right now, she felt like she’d just stuck her face into the middle of a tornado. But Jeremy wasn’t the tornado. He was an anchor for her heart, and a piece of her she knew she had been missing all her life. He was the kind of guy little girls dream of when they wish to grow up and marry a wonderful prince— strong, sensitive, smart, kind, the list just went on. She smiled at herself. It seems that it’s difficult to focus on the end of the world when you’ve just found love.”

Political Death Humanity Fight Mission Unpredictable Gripping Doomsday Irreversible Damage Science Fiction Adventures

Book:The Mayan Legacy

Source: The Mayan Legacy

“It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to justify their mistakes, build on them, until they can look back and convince themselves that their mistake was inevitable all along, a good choice, in fact. An unwed teenage mother can look back at her unexpected pregnancy fondly six years down the road once the child’s out of her hair and in school all day. She wouldn’t dare go back and fix that mistake because it’s become part of her life.”

Mistake Regret Year Repeat

Book:The Repeat Year

Source: The Repeat Year

“But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.”

Regret

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.”

Regret Anger Guilt Folly Foolishness

Book:Moonraker

Source: Moonraker

“The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.”

Life Inspirational Inspiration Inspirational Quotes Life Lessons Regret Life And Living Regrets Regretting

Author:Samantha Leahy

“It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I'm not sure, but there is comfort in the fact that I am in the hands of expert guides, both in the doctor's office and at home with Sue.”

Source: In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest

“Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.”

Regret Advise The Past

Book:A Face at the Window

Source: A Face at the Window

“I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it”

Love Heart Regret Prefer

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

“Did you have any yourself?" she said. "Just one." Harold thought of David, but it was too much to explain. He saw the boy as a toddler and how his face darkened in sunshine like a ripe nut. He wanted to describe the soft dimples of flesh at his knees, and the way he walked in his first pair of shoes, staring down, as if unable to credit they were still attached to his feet. He thought of him lying in hit cot, his fingers so appallingly small and perfect over his wool blanket. You could look at them and fear they might dissolve beneath your touch. Mothering had come so naturally to Maureen. It was as if another woman had been waiting inside her all along, ready to slip out. She knew how to swing her body so that a baby slept; how to soften her voice; how to curl her hand to support his head. She knew what temperature the water should be in his bath, and when he needed to nap, and how to knit him blue wool socks. He had no idea she knew these things and he had watched with awe, like a spectator from the shadows. It both deepened his love for her and lifted her apart, so that just at the moment when he thought their marriage would intensify, it seemed to lose its way, or at least set them in different places. He peered at his baby son, with his solemn eyes, and felt consumed with fear. What if he was hungry? What if he was unhappy? What if other boys hit him when he went to school? There was so much to protect him from, Harold was overwhelmed. He wondered if other men had found the new responsibility of parenting as terrifying, or whether it had been a fault that was only in himself. It was different these days. You saw men pushing buggies and feeding babies with no worries at all.”

Regret Fatherhood

Book:The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

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