Quotes about Regret

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

When you get to heaven, will you look back on this earth and regret how much treasure you laid up here instead of sending it on ahead to heaven?

It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but . . . it's almost always a conversation that shouldn't happen at all. So, if you feel the need to say, I probably shouldn't say this . . . then DON'T! Just hush. That little nudge you are feeling is probably the Holy Spirit saying, Don't go there. You're going to regret the words you're about to speak. Or as King David wrote, Muzzle it! I

I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.