This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Some people regret that they have poor memories. Alas! it is much more difficult to forget.
Man often acquires must so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
Experience | Ignorance | Knowledge | Man | Regret | Wisdom |
Be avaricious of time; do not give any moment without receiving it in value; only allow hours to go from you with as much regret as you give to your gold; do not allow a single day to pass without increasing the treasure of your knowledge and virtue.
Day | Gold | Knowledge | Regret | Time | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste fore natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
Childhood | Heart | Honor | Life | Life | Men | Progress | Regret | Taste | Time | Wealth | Wisdom | World |
Never utter a word in private which you would regret to have heard in public.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
We should live in such a way that in our last hours we will not regret having loved too little.
If we follow what we love, if we live deeply and attentively in this moment, we will not feel bound by regret at the moment of our death. We will live with reverence for all things and a deep gratefulness for the gift of a single day upon the earth.
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Regret |
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
Regret |
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.
Appreciation | Experience | Life | Life | Means | Present | Regret | Self | Will | Appreciation | Value |