If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.