“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.” GivingPersonsCausesImaginationResultsExistenceKnowingRegretShameMiseryPitySentimentsInfantNo RegretsOffence Book:Theory of Legislation Source: Theory of Legislation
“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.” KnowsWayLifeInspirationalMindHeartMayFeelingsHappinessLife IsSpiritWaitingNaturalGriefCreativityWorryCreativeKnowingProgressFrontsPositiveRegretKeysSorrowLetting GoDiseaseExperienceUltimateOvercomingAdversityCalmDisasterSatisfyingYou ChooseBeing HappyJoyousOvercoming AdversityParts Of LifeRecessHappy SpiritUltimate Happiness Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu
“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.” CountryDifficultHoursMy OwnKnowingHappenedRegretCitizensDiedFellowsEightNot KnowingPeruSept 11Difficult Days Author:Colin Powell
“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.” GivingShouldFirstsRememberLawAsksFoundHouseNamesStrongMemoriesPrinciplesStruggleKnowingAtheismMinesJudgingRegretPersonalityInvolvedStonesGive MeCastsVicesPositive AtheismGenerosityGenerousSeatsTouchedNot KnowingDeprivedI RegretConstituents Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.” ThinkingMadeStatesHelpingDecisionKnowingRegretExcitingTerrorRight Decision Author:Dominic Cooper
“But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.” PeopleIfsLife IsJoyKnowingPossibilityRegretSorrowRight NowLetting GoConstantChosenStolenCompensationReluctanceWitheringDeep Sorrow Author:Emily Maguire
“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.” KnowsWorldGivingHeartTwoLightEarthKnowingDyingReadyRegretArmsComfortRiversBurdenMysteriousEveningWearyUnbearableMistSwampsReady To Leave Book:The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) Source: The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
“Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62” FeelsFirstsChildrenHas BeensSaidEndsLastsLostKnowingImagineRegretLoversBonesGrantedClockSecondsComing BackImpossibilityNewbornChemistTruly HappyNewborn Child Author:Craig Clevenger
“I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.” WantHeartWantedPainGivenKnowingRegretMy HeartPhonesWant Me Book:While It Lasts Source: While It Lasts
“We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.” FeelsTogetherGamesWinningKnowingFootballRegretCoachesCombinationNflNot KnowingBowlsQuarterbackSuper BowlBest Football Author:Dan Marino
“There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so - now - knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.” KnowsWantLifeInspirationalFeelsPastJoyAnswersKnowingInspirational LifeRegretStandingExperienceLive LifeLife ExperienceLooking ForwardStandpointNo RegretsFixingPast Present FutureDon't RegretNever Regret Anything Author:Esther Hicks
“One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic” WorldWould BePleasureKnowingRegretSittingDown AndFantasticBotherSitting DownDivingCafes Author:J. K. Rowling
“I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.” ThinkingKnowsWellsI CanSituationKnowingRegretSurfaceMarvelousBugs Author:Chuck Jones