“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.”
More from Jodi Picoult on Life
“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
“It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.”
“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”
“There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.”
“You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.”
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”