Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
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.
I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.
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