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“Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.”

Knows Bigs Secret Regret Tricky Nobody Knows

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.”

Given Secret Regret Endless Recluse

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.”

World Feels Littles Wish Parent Secret Regret Needed My Family I Regret Kinder Center Of The World

Author:Jason Mraz

“It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.”

Giving Wells Littles Persons Able Speak Given Secret Break Regret Conversation Lays

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.”

“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”

May Said Age Given Hours Secret Regret Fellows Endless Cells Hermits Recluse

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Would Be Simple Secret Quality Regret Hero Worship Standards Shame Envy Satisfied Admire Hero Worship Great Qualities

Author:Mark Twain

“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”

Littles Bigs Past Pleasure Deals Secret Regret Instant Daddy Live In The Now Anticipating The Future

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

“Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'”

Ifs Said Hard Night Waiting Sleep Secret Regret Meaningless Harsh Congratulations Petty Can't Sleep

Author:Margaret Cho

“The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.”

“I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.”

Today Pay Secret Regret Tomorrow Waste Yesterday Heed

Author:Walter Russell

“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”

“It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.”

Mean I Can Home Night Prayer Secret Regret Praise Bridges Southern Secret Life

Author:Pat Conroy