“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

— Jim Carrey

Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful': Star Talks About Bouts With Depression And His Spirituality http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/18/60minutes/main656547.shtml 60 Minutes (21 November 2004)

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Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer 1962

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“You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”
“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

“Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”

James Van Praagh (1958) American psychic

Source: Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“Never think about something wrong you did in the past. Always look forward with your head up high. Have no regrets.”

Jared Leto (1971) American actor and musician

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

Katherine Mansfield book Je ne parle pas français

"Je ne parle pas français," http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/bliss.html#francais from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
Variant: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Context: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.