We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could do things over, most of us would censor ourselves less and express our ideas more.

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.

I know that we made mistakes.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

A task left undone remains undone in two places — at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience. — Brahma Kumaris

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.’

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done. (Forward)

We made too many wrong mistakes.

We often commit mistakes. Our steps falter, our tongues falter and slip and [but] he who had no occasion to withdraw what he once said or was undone what he once did.

We made too many of the wrong mistakes.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.