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How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse

Regret is a turbine of self-destruction, remorse an engine of renewal. Drawing on the etymological and cultural heritage of both words, historian Tiffany Watt Smith offers a revelatory distinction between the two, both subtle and profound.

— Maria Popova
1w ago

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

3w ago

The difficulty in life is the choice. And it is a difficulty because, in making a choice, we must leave behind the unselected remainder — which haunts us, sometimes, as the ghost of what we might have been.

4w ago
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George Saunders on the Antidote to Regret

At the end of my life, I know I won't be wishing I'd held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me.

5mo ago

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