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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

— Jonathan Carroll

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

— John Gutfreund

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

— Jeev Milkha Singh

We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

— Lamar Odom

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

— Eleonora Duse

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

— Jennifer Lopez

I truly don't believe in regret.

— Bethenny Frankel

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

— Jude Law

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

— Juliet Stevenson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

— Isaac Marion

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

— Darin Strauss