Maynard James Keenan Quotes

As far as the regrets go, that's just not part of my makeup.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

I think I regret the impact on everybody. But I think I just maybe could have gone about it in a kinder way.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

We all have relationships - I've had relationships in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'That was a mistake.'

I don't like having regrets, I think it's important not to.

There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.

We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.