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“Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.”

Done Reality Belief Left Felt Religious Regret Burden Guilty Anxious Slips Belief In God Inadequacy Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.”

Ifs Art Self Reality Emotion Masters Regret Discipline Self Discipline

Author:John Assaraf

“In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.”

People Said Reality Past Bits Share Media Regret Scent Printing Reluctant Misconception I Regret

Author:Megan Fox

“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.”

Trying Believe Ideas Character Problem Reality Turns Strong Subjects Students Regret Approach Gains Argument University Passionate Technique Fantastic Categories Don't Regret

Author:Richard Branson

“Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.”

“Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.”

Mind Self Moments Reality Might Happens Fighting Next Accepting Regret Ego Blame Justification

Book:When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

“My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.”

World Writing Stills Book Enough Reality Eye Faces Humanity Nature My Own Animal Emotion Dog Information Regret Perceive Pet Carrie Bees Mice Brutes I Regret Through The Eyes Animals In Nature

Author:C. S. Lewis

“He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it”

Years Matter Done Reality Care Courses Loses Sleep Deals Learning Regret Surprise Passing Passings Now And Then

Author:Steve Perry

“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Ifs Reality Hate Fall Passion Grows Growing Flower Regret Absolutes Attraction Weed Manifest Don't Hate Don't Regret Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

“While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.”

Reality Certain Conditions Regret Cost Capacity Performances Impact Financial Currents Productions Employee

Author:Christopher Galvin

“As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”

Dream Reality Joy Realizing Our Lives Regret Slips Our Dreams Betrayed Consumed Succession

Book:The Little Virtues

Source: The Little Virtues