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“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

“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.”

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.”

Hands Water Wonder Regret Staring Plunge Wrists

Author:W. H. Auden

“Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve.”

Energy Bits Water Lines Struggle Regret Where You Are Cork

Author:Esther Hicks

“I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”

Trying Done Water Regret Bridges No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Ike Turner

“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

Source: This Side of Paradise

“It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.”

Trying Water Regret Ocean Bail Teaspoons

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I've been very, very lucky that it doesn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guess.”

Ifs Way Should Years Shows Asks Water Regret Terrible Drink Lucky Work Out Ask Me Drink Water Cupcakes

Author:Blake Lively