“my one regret in life is that I am not someone else”

if only. those must be the two saddest words in the world”- mercedes lackey

“there is nothing to regret – either for those who go or for those who are left behind” – eleanor roosevelt

“when one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us” – alexander graham bell

“one’s real life is often the life that one does not lead” – oscar wilde

“regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable” – sydney smith

“i have no regrets. i wouldn’t have lived my life the way i did if i was going to worry about what people were going to say” – ingrid bergman

“regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good” – william o’rourke

“the follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity” - helen rowland

“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

peace

2 thoughts on ““my one regret in life is that I am not someone else”

  1. thank you, sometimes nature’s natural-ness is overlooked in search for something “better”, when that ‘something better’ is right before us all along

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