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To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

— David Whyte

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Robin Marantz Henig

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

I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

— Marc Warren

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

— Tao Lin

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

— Jeev Milkha Singh

I truly don't believe in regret.

— Bethenny Frankel

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

— Kathryn Schulz

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.

— Lindsay Lohan

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

— Kate Winslet