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| Yes | 42% | 211 votes | Total: 508 votes | |
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by Lisa Papez
The short answer is that yes, it is possible to live without regrets Now for the long answer: As the Unicorn in the tale The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle said: "I can...read more
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by Carol Gioia
"I never look back, I'm not going that way." This popular quote is a metaphor for not living in the past. Rather than getting mired down with regrets for the past, we can try ...read more
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Sure it can be done, But it ain't easy Maggie! Show me a person that has no regrets and I'll show you someone who has'nt lived, or maybe in a Monastery somewhere..in the Ima...read more
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by Nancy Horton
This life of ours, is a journey. A journey in which we learn through experiences. Some experiences are minor and brief; and some are enormous in detail and meaning. Without thes...read more
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by Vonda Sines
You betcha. I immediately think of several acquaintances, each of whom is living proof that it's quite possible to live without regrets. The problem with "regret" is tha...read more
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What joy we would find if we could allow ourselves to live without regrets, in the moment, participating completely, here and now! This is a choice we can learn to make by reali...read more
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Yes it is possible and no you do not have to be a martyr or a bad man to do so. Regret is a function of hindsight. It's when you look back at your past and realize you've blun...read more
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Around Christmas time my boyfriend of almost two years broke up with me. I was sick with pneumonia and caught up in the whirlwind of preparation for college. I never realized ...read more
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by Alexa Lurie
The ability to live without regrets all has to do with your philosophy of life, how you frame your experiences, and how you choose to respond to your experiences. When I experie...read more
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Not long ago, I read a newspaper article about a woman who owns an apartment building named "No Regrets Apartments." It's funny how a simple phrase can get you to think about s...read more
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Living without regrets seems like an impossible endeavor, but I believe there are several ways to accomplish this goal. Nothing in life is ever really wasted, if you have learne...read more
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It is entirely possible and I would dare I say probable that life can be lived without regrets. This mode of living, free of judgments toward right and wrong in our own or anyo...read more
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I think it's definitely possible to live without regrets. Life is what YOU make of it. You can sit and ponder all the yesterdays, or you can release, let go and direct your at...read more
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As I reflected on this question I had to look inward and examine my own life and think about all the things that I've ever experienced that might have induced feelings of regret...read more
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by TBAcademics
"Food?"..... "Check!" "Clothing?"... "Check!" "Shelter?"... "Check!" "Regrets?"... "Huh?" As we know it, food, clothing and shelter are humanity's basic needs. You'd...read more
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Living without regret is absolutely possible and within reach to every human being. To regret is nothing more than to look back at your life and wish things had been different,...read more
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by Daniel Hauge
This can be broken down into two distinct questions: 1. Is it possible to live without regretting anything? 2. Is it possible to live without doing anything regrettable? ...read more
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by Kyle Figard
Yes but only if you live a perfect life, but who among us can do that. You can live a regret free life, under one condition, that you don't regret what you do. Now some of the t...read more
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by Neil Deo
Although "regret looks backwards," and faith looks forward, the majority of human beings cannot help second-guessing themselves and their decisions. If you play the stock market...read more
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by Cyd Madsen
A life lived without regrets is a live lived in a vacuum. It's a life that has never taken the risk of loving, acting on personal and original thoughts, and never having dared ...read more
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Is it possible to live without regrets? Certainly not! All of us make mistakes all the time, it's part of the human condition. We are selfish, sinful people who do the best w...read more
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To live without regrets would be to have not lived at all. My grandmother once told me never regret anything you have done whether it be good or bad as they are the bricks of wh...read more
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Is It Possible To Live Without Regrets? Good question, easy answer, NO! I don't think there is anyone out there that can say that they have no regrets, I know that I have mad...read more
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by L. Beall
In a perfect world nothing would ever go wrong and we would always be sure of the choices we made. We do not live in a perfect world so it is not possible to live without regret...read more
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Emphatically, no, this is not possible. Life is so full of choices and we are mere humans, unable to always choose the right path. Like autumn leaves, that path is littered wit...read more
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by A.D Bell
I think that regrets are the lessons that we have learned in our lives that help formulate our experiences. Is it logical to ask a baby to walk without falling? The answer is "...read more
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No. I do not believe one can live a life without a few regrets, but I do believe they can be minimized by taking daily account of your actions. It is virtually impossible to go ...read more
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10 of 20
Regrets? Even Sinatra had a few! But, then again, too few to mention. But, "Is it possible to live without regrets?" That, my friends, is a fantastic question. That's the greate...read more
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Everyone will have some regrets at least once in a life time. If you have no regrets you have not lived your life to the fullest potential. No one has a perfect life. That is wh...read more
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People on their deathbed sometimes will say that they have no regrets. I doubt that this means there is nothing they did during their lifetime that they later wished they had n...read more
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by Vicki Andis
Is it possible to live a life without regrets? This is an interesting question. I doubt that there is anybody who has never had a regret, in fact I would be a little afraid of a...read more
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I would hope it would not be possible to live without regrets! I don't want to have regrets but the nature of humanity is that living without them means that we don't care abou...read more
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by Todd Pheifer
Who of us has not made a decision that later turned out to be the "wrong" decision? Who of us hasn't made mistakes or errors in judgment? If any of us thinks that all of our d...read more
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To be a human and live a full life is to have regrets. If we were perfect we would have none because everything that we did would have been done perfectly from the start hence t...read more
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by Lisa Currie
Is it possible to live without regrets? The short answer is no. Living without regrets would be an assumption that life is perfect but in reality, life without regret is nearly ...read more
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No life lived comes without some types of regret its part of living to regret mistakes you make in life. Life's are full of regrets when you make a bad decision there are always...read more
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by Daiana C.
I had an old aunt. She died peacefully, without regrets : her first husband died young;with her second husband had four children,but only one came to her funeral;this second hus...read more
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by raw-writer
Of course being able to say any one can live with out regrets is easy, hey i can say it and move on to tomorrow and not look back. But when tomorrow comes and it does come each...read more
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