Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn't do a thing for me.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

What's done can't be undone.

Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.

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

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

Do not regret what you have done

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.

I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.