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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

— Katherine Mansfield

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✓Similar Perspectives

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

— Jonathan Larson

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

— Robin Marantz Henig

You don't want to look back and have any regrets because things are too hard.

— Gabriel E. Gomez

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

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

— Robbie Williams

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

— Lamar Odom

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

— Zinedine Zidane

✗Opposing Perspectives

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Jeev Milkha Singh

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

— Aubrey O'Day