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“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.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace”

World Long Mother Memories Sacrifice Regret Determination Prison Changing The World Luther I Regret

Author:Philip Bailey

“Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.”

Together Memories Space Taken Produce Regret Elements Machines Science Fiction Sufficient Time Machine

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.”

Men Said Wisdom Certain Memories Wise Stage Youth Regret Ought Periods Ultimate Incarnation Being Wise

Book:In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time

Source: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time

“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.”

Mind Memories Wonder Regret Breaths Surface Disappear Vivid Here And There Sinking Of My Mind Pebbles Firefly Quicksand Vignettes

Author:Susan Kay

“Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!”

Soul Night Energy Memories Regret Evidence Substance Rising Resolve Flood Rolling Numb Manly Fading Withered Moody Dauntless Withered Leaves

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.”

Giving Feels Moments Memories Pleasure Music Regret

Author:Madame de Stael

“I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.”

Has Beens Said Might Happens Memories Regret Western Atheist Positive Atheism Chinese Lakes Shrines Chic

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret.”

Knows Should Looks Art Soul Home Death Memories Forget Gone Land Regret Flow Glad My Soul Look Up Shed Weary Drank Repose So Sad Lethe

Author:Thomas Kibble Hervey

“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.”

“A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.”

Enough Stories Memories Written Regret Prison Tales Landscape

Author:Brunonia Barry

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.”

Want Years Looks Memories Regret Our Memories Jars

Author:Tricia Goyer

“Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.”

Memories Regret Corruption Accommodate

Author:Dana Rosemary Scallon