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“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

People Ifs Should Running Past Belief Causes Steps Risk Trouble Changed Regret Normal Trade Historian Mistaken Vocation Conservatism

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.”

Source: Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind

“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.”

Firsts Heart Mean Left Term Water Results Trouble Sky Regret Difficulty Disappointment Burning Fewer Smooth Presidency

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident.”

Writing Looks Mistake Novel Trouble Havens Regret Series Forgotten Finished Tricks Incidents Finished Work Wrong Words

Author:Daniel Handler

“Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble”

Feels Littles Bits Perfect Trouble Regret Little Bit

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.”

Should Fall Space Sun Trouble Greatness Planets Regret Cold Wide Vain Companion Rays Educate Should I Reflecting No Regrets Crude Ungrateful Small Parts Receiver

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”

Said Night Trouble Regret Late Fixed Midnight

Book:Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”

Ifs World Home Remember Wish Easy Trouble Color Regret Ought Oneself Fades Replaced Mud Old Life

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.”

Enough Grief Trouble Regret

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.”

People Thinking Should Believe Father Fun I Believe Parent Trouble Regret Late My Friends Twenties Parenting Having Fun Torn

Author:Eric McCormack

“Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.”

Today Interest Trouble Regret Tomorrow Optimism Yesterday Borrowing

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman