Quotations are the fundamental distillation of a writer’s life and thinking as recorded in words and phrases for posterity. Through them the reader is afforded the unique opportunity to share in the thoughts, the life and the experiences of the writer. In a special way, they offer the reader a window into the mind of the author and hopefully an inducement to read further and learn more about the author and the story he relates.

On a wider scale, they are, as William Feather wrote, “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages preserved into perpetuity“, and as such they are available for the enrichment and enhancement of humanity, regardless of age, sex, race, educational or economic status. They are indeed, as the Talmud states, “food for the famished”.

The collection of quotations presented in this blog, have been chosen by me because of their special impact upon me. They have been published so that you too, may experience the joy I have had over the years reading them and getting to know the authors.

I trust that you will come to know the feeling of deep satisfaction possible from reading them, searching out the author and meditating upon their meaning and their impact on your life.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

REGRET

If you are patient in one moment of anger;
You will escape a hundred days of Regret. …..Chinese Proverb

Let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone. ….William Shakespeare

A man is not old, until Regrets take the place of dreams. …..John Barrymore

Maybe all you can hope is to end up with the right Regrets. ….Arthur Miller

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
It’s the Regret for the things we did not do; that is inconsolable. …..Sidney J. Harris

You seldom experience Regret for anything you’ve done;
It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. ……Wayne Dyer

Regret is an appalling waste of energy;
You can’t build on it; It’s only good to wallow in. …..Katherine Mansfield

It is better to look ahead and prepare;
Than to look back and Regret. …..Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I have often Regretted my speech; never my silence. ………Publilius Syrus

Never regret;
If it's good, it's wonderful.
If it's bad, it's experience. ……Victoria Holt

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret.
Everything might have turned out so differently. ……Charles Dudley Warner

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

Accept life, and you must accept Regret. ……Henry F. Amiel

Regrets and recriminations only hurt the soul. ……Armand Hammer

Never look back with Regret;
Rather look back and smile at what you have learned. …..Michelle C. Ustaszeski

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then Regret. …….Bob Dylan
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