“You’ll never regret being a good friend.”
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Emily Giffin 84
American writer 1972Related quotes
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
"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.
Source: Reflections: Life After the White House
“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
Source: Middlemarch
As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65