There's no point regretting something you've already done. It's in the past. Let it go. Continue on with life.

We awake at dawn.
To sink or swim.

Only the brittle can be broken.

Bravery is picking up a pen and writing. Bravery is gouging out words from inside you and then imprinting them on a page to make them permanent. Bravery is knowing they might not ever be read by anyone, that the art you leave behind, the contributions you make to the world, might never be known by anyone. Bravery is knowing all of that but doing it anyway.

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.