naïve red-headed housewife

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”

– Lucille Ball [1911-1989]

greatest regret

"That I was too old to have affairs."
- Peggy Guggenheim

the fortune of misfortune

"I've made a thousand mistakes, but I wouldn't change anything as they brought me to this place."
- Willie Nelson

no regrets

"If you go back and fix all the mistakes you've ever made, you erase yourself."
- Louis C.K.

quaked in the presence of god

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"You can't live a truthful life without regret."
- Jamie Lee Curtis