“True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.”
Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.”
Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
“People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.”
The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62
Fiction
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
the cathedral pastor visiting Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Variant: Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.
“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story