Variant: You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”
She believed, rightly, that gives you purpose and helps you heal. So I always do my best to forgive and move forward.
On the lessons that her Dutch mother (who was interned in a Japanese internment camp during WWII) instilled in her in “Interview: Jane Seymour on finding love again at 64” https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/interview-jane-seymour-on-finding-love-again-at-64-1-3911978 in The Scotsman (2015 Oct 10)
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew,
You had grown strong as the sun or the sea.
But none shall triumph a whole life through:
For death is one, and the fates are three.
At the door of life, by the gate of breath,
There are worse things waiting for men than death;
Death could not sever my soul and you,
As these have severed your soul from me.You have chosen and clung to the chance they sent you,
Life sweet as perfume and pure as prayer.
But will it not one day in heaven repent you?
Will they solace you wholly, the days that were?
Will you lift up your eyes between sadness and bliss,
Meet mine, and see where the great love is,
And tremble and turn and be changed? Content you;
The gate is strait; I shall not be there.</p
