{"quotes":[{"text":"At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.","author":"Dito Montiel","tags":["life-and-living","missed-opportunities"],"id":25765,"author_id":"Dito+Montiel"},{"text":"Keep waving someone who has closed his eyes only when you understand the fact that you are only exhausting your energy with the hope that one day he will open his eyes and see you waving him!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["breakup","closed-doors","love","missed-opportunities","the-past","waving"],"id":34812,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"We yearn for opportunities, we pray for opportunities and we seek for opportunities. The good news is that we meet opportunities. The bad news is that we miss the opportunities only to come to a later realization of missed opportunities.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["gone-opportunities","inspirational","job-search","lessons-of-life","lost-opportunities","love","missed-chances","missed-opportunities","missing-you","motivational","opportunity","regrets","regrets-of-the-past","take-chances","take-opportunities","vigilance","wisdom"],"id":61590,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"What I mean is, right from that first time, there wassomething in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed tosay: “Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what apity we left it so late.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["missed-opportunities","regret"],"id":67368,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.","author":"Dante Gabriel Rossetti","tags":["missed-opportunities","poetry","regret"],"id":117921,"author_id":"Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti"},{"text":"And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, 'go.","author":"Frances Mayes","tags":["missed-opportunities","travel"],"id":149761,"author_id":"Frances+Mayes"},{"text":"Don’t live in regret over missed opportunities, for if you do, you will miss even more.","author":"Charbel Tadros","tags":["missed-opportunities","regret"],"id":184677,"author_id":"Charbel+Tadros"},{"text":"How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back…All those years I spent unhappy with him …. When I should have been looking for you.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","missed-opportunities","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","regret","right-love-wrong-time","sad","sad","sad","sadness","ships-in-the-night","the-one-that-got-away","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":191724,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “In my day, if I learned anything, it was to tell the ones you love how much love them. When I was your age, I fell in love with a beautiful woman. You know, fifties and all, I never told her, and she married a man that abused her terribly.” She paused, and Artemis could tell her eyes were dampening. “I went to her funeral two years after she moved away. In her things, there was a letter for me, telling me how much love she’d held in her heart and couldn’t speak. I was happy, my husband and my kids, but I always wonder, what woulda happened if I’d told her how much I loved her.” She smiled again. “Just don’t waste time, that’s what I’ll say. Call it old advice from an interfering old woman.","author":"Beverly L. Anderson","tags":["advice","hope","inspiration","missed-opportunities"],"id":203737,"author_id":"Beverly+L.+Anderson"},{"text":"People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","chances","failure","inspirational","missed-chances","missed-opportunities","motivational","not-taking-risk","opportunities","opportunity","philosophy","regret","regrets","risk","risk-taking","success","wisdom"],"id":291701,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}