“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.” IfsMomentsPastFearMemoriesDoubtFailingRegretFutureCapableVulnerableDelusionPresent Moment Author:Jan Phillips
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.” PeopleFeelingsDifficultFailingRegretSorrowHealthyProjectsFrustrationRejectedTerrifiedAnnoyance Author:Albert Ellis
“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.” ShouldEndsSelfEarthChanceFailingAchieveRegretConfidenceEqualIntellectualShould HavePermitAssuranceEquilibriumSelf Assurance Author:Paul Cezanne
“Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.” WorldWarFeelingsEffortFailingRegretResourcesStructureDefenseDevotedSurveysImpartArmamentFree World Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959