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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
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“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― The House of Life
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― The House of Life
“With strained relationships, missed opportunities, and waning commitments, we must capture a profound and introspective view on dealing with life's challenges. A primordial clue to being a reasonable winner is being honest to ourselves and responsible to others. ( "The world was somewhere else")”
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“There is nothing more heartbreaking than a squandered opportunity, a missed chance. I knew about stuff like that. I'd been young once. So many dreams had been dashed. But I dashed them myself. I wanted to be safe, whole, have a future of certainty. One makes mistakes when there is confusion between having a future at all and having the future one wants.”
― Death in Her Hands
― Death in Her Hands
“Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.”
― Alphabet of Thorn
― Alphabet of Thorn
“men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“He thought of all the times he could have visited, and hadn't. All those missed opportunities to call. All those times he'd forgotten her birthday.”
― Troubled Blood
― Troubled Blood
“The biggest waste of an opportunity is the opportunity to tell someone how much you love them.”
― Desires and Destiny
― Desires and Destiny
“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”
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“Our greatest regrets in life tend not to be the things we did wrong or failed to achieve; but rather the missed opportunities or things we didn't do that we wish we had.”
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“Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream.”
― The Oneironaut’s Diary
― The Oneironaut’s Diary
“I felt confused about my own life, as if I were living in the mind of a stranger. I wanted to understand her heart. I just wanted to be certain it was the right decision. Love was something I felt deeply but couldn't express, and now that I've said goodbye, I suddenly realize all the things I should have said.”
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“William's smile is heavy with missed opportunities and lost years. "When other people our age talk about their childhoods, they always seem to remember the sun shining the whole time. All I remember is constantly hoping for rain.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“We tie ourselves down with the ropes of fear and doubt, and still dare to wonder why we cannot fly.”
― These Words Pour Like Rain
― These Words Pour Like Rain
“I suffer not only from what I have experienced but also from what I have not been able to experience; there is no making up for a past that has not been lived.”
― Ernesto'nun Dağları
― Ernesto'nun Dağları
“Your belly may be empty and opportunities flicker dimly, but let your cheeks glow fat with the fortune of life.”
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“Chances are you have business cards lying around from people you have met that are doing what you want to be doing who can help you - if you ask. ”
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“~In the final analysis, life often unveils itself as an anthology of missed chances—an untold story of roads not traveled and destinies left unexplored. The passage of time often reveals life's ultimate truth—In the end, life is just a collection of missed opportunities...”
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“The worst form of regret is the one born from unspoken words and missed opportunities, echoing the untold stories of what could have been.”
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“It is heartbreaking to see someone so cherished being washed away by a tidal wave of deep insecurities.”
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“But then a tiny worm of a voice begins in her ear. You’ll never get ahead if you’re not willing to take risks. It hisses and mutters, buzzing with derision, warning of lost opportunities. The best way to achieve greatness, it says, is to be remarkable. Be assertive. Take chances.”
― The Engraver's Secret
― The Engraver's Secret
“Sometimes we get more chances than we think we'll get. Sometimes we don't get the ones we want. I believe there are parallel lives swirling all around us where all our dreams came true and stayed. ⠀”
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“Regrets are sinkholes. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on.”
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“Regrets are sinkholes. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on.”
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“Wasted Chances
I think life offers many chances, And we waste most of them by never taking them— (Just like untouched glasses of champagne.)”
― The Willow Song
I think life offers many chances, And we waste most of them by never taking them— (Just like untouched glasses of champagne.)”
― The Willow Song
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