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1. “Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!”

Ivan Turgenev

Happiness, Timing, Regret, Fate, Emotion

2. “I had no first love,′ he said at last; ‘I began with the second.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Memory, Regret, Beginnings, Reflection

3. “I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it.”

Ivan Turgenev

Bittersweet, Experience, Regret, Nostalgia, Life’s Lessons

4. “Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it’s not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”

Ivan Turgenev

Sentimentality, Disillusionment, Regret, Emotional Contrast, Human Nature

5. “Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Youth, Regret, Emotion, Life

6. “I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That’s like I wrote a joke that didn’t work, but now I have to tell it for a year.”

Mitch Hedberg

Roommate, Lease, Commitment, Joke, Regret

7. “We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.”

Charles Lamb

Existence, Dreams, Regret, Reality, Introspection

8. “Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.”

Margaret Fuller

Desire, Realization, Regret, Reflection, Contentment

9. “I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.”

Steven Wright

Career, Choices, Passion, Regret, Comedy

10. “When young, we will experience short-term pain. Because we are learning new things, forming new relationships, discovering a new self, facing your fears. If we avoid this short-term pain it converts into long-term regret.”

Ankur Warikoo

Youth, Pain, Growth, Regret, Courage

11. “A year from now, you will never be sure of the results. But you can certainly be sure of regret, if you don’t start today.”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Action, Timing, Uncertainty, Initiative

12. “A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Start today.”

Ankur Warikoo

Action, Regret, Timing, Initiative, Progress

13. “A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Boundaries, Self-priority, Reflection, Choice

14. “Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: RESULT or REGRET”

Ankur Warikoo

Time, Result, Regret, Action, Consequence

15. “Safe is better than sorry. Nope. Risk is better than regret.”

Ankur Warikoo

Risk, Regret, Courage, Choice, Safety

16. “The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. Definition of hell.”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Potential, Life, Reflection, Self-awareness

17. “Disappointment is temporary. Regret is permanent.”

Ankur Warikoo

Disappointment, Regret, Time, Emotion, Choice

18. “We will never be able to answer "what if?" We will only regret it!”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Curiosity, Action, Uncertainty, Opportunity

19. “The decision that will hurt you the most is not making one, while waiting to take the right one!”

Ankur Warikoo

Indecision, Pain, Choice, Action, Regret

20. “The distance between ‘I could have’ and ‘I have’ is regret.”

Ankur Warikoo

Regret, Action, Opportunity, Achievement, Reflection

21. “I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.”

Jimmy Carter

Politics, Experience, Leadership, Regret, Wisdom

22. “We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything.”

V.S. Naipaul

Exploration, Contribution, Perspective, Regret, Life

23. “And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn’t been satisfactions at all.”

V.S. Naipaul

Desire, Emptiness, Illusion, Regret, Experience

24. “Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”

Pythagoras

Anger, Folly, Regret, Emotions, Wisdom

25. “Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”

Pythagoras

Anger, Folly, Regret, Wisdom, Emotions

26. “Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”

Democritus

Memory, Morality, Guilt, Reflection, Regret

27. “Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”

Plutarch

Desire, Consequences, Regret, Greed, Suffering

28. “Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”

Plutarch

Silence, Wisdom, Regret, Speech, Restraint

29. “A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.”

Plutarch

Regret, Conviction, Integrity, Reason, Decision

30. “It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.”

Plutarch

Speech, Words, Regret, Wisdom, Consequences

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