I Regret Nothing Quotes

“At my age, I feel like I’m halfway to the finish line and life’s too short to do what I’m sure to hate.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Ultimately, my goal in life is to arrive at the finish line without having regrets.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“If I may, I’d like to take a moment to praise Mark Zuckerberg’s parents for not procreating sooner. Praise be to all that is holy that Facebook didn’t exist when I was that age and the Internet then was but a Usenet group for Star Trek fans. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have grown up when cameras used actual film because the only thing that stood between infamy and me was the clerk who developed photos at Walgreens. Thank God for him.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“(Sidebar: Mindy Kaling describes “best friend” as being a friendship tier and not a singular person. Mindy Kaling is wise beyond her years.)”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“lives are meant to be our lives, and not a facade presented for the consumption of others; or, WE ARE NOT A MAGAZINE. I worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they’re ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they’re going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this—if you want to avoid regrets later, give yourselves a break now and just be real. Enjoy the mess. Revel in the imperfection.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“I’ve come to realize this isn’t “real” and there’s no substitute for actual interaction. The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can’t subsist on it.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they’re ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they’re going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this—if you want to avoid regrets later, give yourselves a break now and just be real. Enjoy the mess. Revel in the imperfection.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn’t own me and that life’s meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I’ve finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“I’ve always feared growing older because I thought I’d run out of interests, but what this project has taught me is that I’ve barely scratched the surface of what I could try next.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“This way, when I do have something like special-occasion engagement cake, I can enjoy the whole damn thing without a twinge of remorse. I”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Dessert is my reward for having met my goals during the day. Really, dessert is an event rather than a specific item.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Although they’re doing manual labor, they’re both wearing tailored slacks and dressy leather shoes, which”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“You know what else I haven’t seen? Home stores. I’ve not passed the equivalent of Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn, so I get the feeling that no one’s killing themselves working double shifts so they can consume stuff to make their homes Pinterest-perfect. Maybe the Roman message is to not let your stuff own you.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“No one gives out Congratulations on Not Being a Douche-Canoe medals, because good behavior is part of the social contract.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Or how about when a person publishes something along the lines of, “This has been the worst day EVAH,” but then gets all closed-lipped about why it’s been so bad. This is attention-seeking at its worst.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“This should be easy because I’ve fallen out of love with Facebook. First, I want to be the kind of friend who hears about others’ milestones in person. I hate learning about major life events buried in a timeline between photos of fresh pedicures and pictures of lunch. When someone close to me has a baby or goes through emergency surgery or suffers a loss, they deserve more than a “like.” A click should never take the place of real interaction. Plus, I almost never visit anyone else’s page”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“We are middle-aged. This is what happens. All the same nonsense that comes with puberty occurs again during perimenopause—the hormone surges, the moodiness, and the hair appearing where there wasn’t hair before. Except instead of filling in under the arms and on nether regions, these coarse follicles of hate are showing up on our freaking faces.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can’t subsist on it.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“You don’t have to be a writer, though, to know that making fun of yourself is a good way to deflect being made fun of. Like many people, I am hypercritical about myself so that I beat the haters to the punch. When I acknowledge my foibles first, no one else can use them against me. I’ve taken away everyone else’s power to make me feel less about myself by doing it first.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“But how come no one says anything to my face? I do dozens of events per year and I’ve met thousands of readers, and every single person I’ve ever encountered has been lovely. Why is that, I wonder? Am I more charming in person, or is it that face-to-face blunt-force-trauma honesty requires a modicum of courage?”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“With the mere click of a mouse, I can be put in my place but good via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, or Google+, just to name a few. (But not MySpace, which has been a ghost town since 2008. I hope Tom’s okay.)”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“I’m not one of those folks who have to face death to live life. I”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“photo developers everywhere are likely the reason my entire generation didn’t devolve into total chaos.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“My whole life I’ve harbored a resentment toward those who could ride no-handed. To this day, I can’t even sit on an exercise bike without clinging to the handlebars with a serious G.I.-Joe- kung-fu grip. Every time I see someone on the road, all smug and well-balanced, using their cell phone and gesturing while they talk and ride, I secretly want to bash them with my car door. It’s”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“I’ve always wanted to take a swim wherever it is they snap those screensaver photos—Fiji? Bora Bora? The Maldives?—and sleep in a hotel room that’s more of a hut built on a dock over the water. After reading The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, I’m dying to see the sun set in Botswana. I want to visit Indian temples and volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“What about my Girls Gone Mild life leads you to believe I’m a body shot shy of debauchery? Is it the pearls?”
― Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir