The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Interpretation
Regrets are a natural part of life, and it's important not to judge ourselves harshly for them.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of experiencing regrets throughout our lives. Instead of striving for a regret-free existence, we should focus on accepting our past decisions and showing compassion towards ourselves, recognizing that regrets can be part of our growth and understanding.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth during a workshop.
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
My whole life I have been complaining _x000D_ that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered _x000D_ that my interruptions _x000D_ were my work.
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.
You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
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