Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

by Bronnie Ware

Finding the courage to act or surrender will never be as painful as lying on a deathbed with regrets.

On one list was what I was good at; on the other one, what I loved to do.

‘Don’t you ever let anyone stop you doing what you want,

the regret of not having lived a life true to themselves

yearning for pleasure. So it is often only when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

suffering projected onto me. Happy people don’t treat other people that way, nor do they judge others for living a life true to his or her self. If

The most important thing I have learnt in life though, the absolutely most important, is that compassion starts with yourself.

Life doesn’t owe you anything. Neither does anyone else. Only you owe yourself. So the best way to make the most out of life is to appreciate the gift of it, and choose not to be a victim.’