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“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.”

“I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.”

Firsts Doe Moments Used Stars Waiting Sound Dark Tree Regret Longing Shining Foolish Evening Sunset Darling Me Alone Backyards Gum

Book:Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield

“I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.”

Children Stills Shows Waiting Parent Television Regret And Love Guilt Tunes No Regrets Television Shows Having Children Nannies Have No Regrets Good Parent Patience And Love

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.”

Thinking I Can Three Lost Waiting Regret Weak Lifetime Vices Bliss Boredom Stations Anticipation Echoes Liberated Transport Railway Railway Station

Author:Eric Morecambe

“Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!”

Men Want Dies Waiting Regret Filled Leap Old Man Resilient Leap Of Faith Inception

Author:Ken Watanabe

“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.”

Ifs Facts Moving Guy Found Waiting Perfect Business Economy Five Crazy Regret Percent Personal Growth Seventies Never Regret I Never Regret

Author:Lee Iacocca

“There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.”

World Waiting Regret Cold Revenge Triumph Dishes

Book:The Scold's Bridle

Source: The Scold's Bridle

“I don't believe in having regrets. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don't want it to happen. Every high and every low moment has a lesson waiting for you to find it.”

Believe Reason Moments I Believe Waiting Regret Things Happen

Author:Lizzie Velasquez

“I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.”

Next Sports Waiting Morning Regret Basketball Dumb

Author:Bobby Knight

“To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.”

Thinking Left Waiting Fields Football Regret Carolina North Carolina Football Field

Author:Sarah Addison Allen

“My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.”

Believe Long Said Running Waiting Mistake Sacrifice Regret Fingers Believe In Me Never Regret

Author:Marissa Meyer

“If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?”

“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

“Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.”

Needs Looks Motivational Today Past Moving Opportunity Waiting Leadership Regret Focused Yesterday Spots Get Back Capability Replay Past Regrets

Author:John C. Maxwell