Guilt

“Over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful—I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice, that opportunity for control. I’m here, this is now, I have learned to tell myself, over and over, until the panicky feeling begins to ease…We can’t choose to vanish the dark, but we can choose to kindle the light.” -Dr. Edith Eger, book The Choice

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Feeling guilty has never helped a single person in all of human history. And never will.

Taking a positive corrective action in response to a guilty feeling has and will.