Amy Tan Quotes

I've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but I don't look back on anything with regret.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

I don't really have any regrets.

I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

I don't have any regrets.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.

I don't have any big regrets.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.