“It’s fine to experience regret when we abandon a sunk cost. It’s a mistake to stick with one simply because we can’t bear the regret.” — Seth Godin, The Practice
Tag: regret
Quote of the Day
“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.” — Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room
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“In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you’ll get is a few hard drinks and morning.” — James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly
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“I was expecting to be mugged, to be decked and given a good licking by regret, and a frantic craving for youth, when, however problemed you are, you have the consolation of decades of rectification to hope for.” — Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
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“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!” — Charles Dudley Warner, “Eighteenth Week,” My Summer in a Garden
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“Regret is an emotion, and it is also a punishment that we administer to ourselves.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
No One Would Have Friends
He said he disagreed strongly.
I had quoted Mary Renault: “It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly” and he believed it was better to trust no one and have them prove themselves.
I was surprised he felt so strongly about it. “That’s a negative point of view!”
“Not at all,” he replied. “I avoid disappointment and get the occasional pleasant surprise. That sounds positive to me.”
“And you think everyone should be like you?”
“Of course!”
“Well If no one trusted anybody, there never would be an opportunity to find out and then no one would have any friends.” This would have been the coup de grâce — had this conversation taken place. Before opening my mouth, I remembered that Jonathan Swift once said “Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.”
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“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly.” — Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
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“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” — John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller
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“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
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