You can be sorry and you can apologize, but there’s only one positive thing that can come out of the regrets that you have accumulated over your lifetime.  What use is acknowledging your mistakes if you don’t learn from them?  Take your regrets and the knowledge you have gained from them and apply them to the rest of your life.  Don’t add the ultimate regret of repeating a mistake after you have already learned better.

http://www.theresadodaro.com   Author of The Tin Box Trilogy