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“I used to be a lawyer and I quit the practice of law to start writing and one of the reasons that I did that was I had an older sister who was too sick, who had breast cancer and it just got me to this moment of really looking at my life and saying what do I really want to do? What is really going to make me happy? Do I want to be sixty-five years old looking back and regretting not ever having taken the chance or the risk?”

Writing Reason Moments Chance Taken Risk Regret Sick Cancer Lawyer Quitting Looking Back Make Me Happy Breast Cancer I Quit Older Sister

Author:David Hudgins

“I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.”

Made Enough Social Sound Economy Regret Resources Sick Educational Social Change Abiding

Book:John Major: The Autobiography

Source: John Major: The Autobiography

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

Believe Looks Heart Might Romance Regret My Heart Sick Don't Believe Betray Cheat I Don't Believe You

Author:Nora Roberts

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

Littles Home Bigs Care School Moving Mother Father Sacrifice Son Regret Daughter Sick Take Care Supposed To Be Aspire Parts Of Life

Author:Mitch Albom

“He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret”

Regret Sick Lust Mesmerized

Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)”

Looks Eye Mother Father Brother Regret Sick Died Shame My Sister Despise Mother Died Father And Brother Look Me In The Eye

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.”

“Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.”

Source: Italy, a Poem