"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Dyer, Wayne | Regret | 2 bookmarks

"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden."

Eliot, T. S. | Regret | 4 bookmarks

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Harris, Sidney J. | Regret | 4 bookmarks

"Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect."

Lion, The | Regret | 4 bookmarks

"Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret."

Lucado, Max L. | Regret | 2 bookmarks

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Regret | 3 bookmarks

"The good old times -- all times when old are good."

Byron, Lord | Nostalgia | 2 bookmarks

"It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

Mccullers, Carson | Nostalgia | 2 bookmarks