Quotes About What-ifs

what is Thomas didn't run, What if Harry didn't survive, what if Percy didn't fight, what if Tris didn't jump, what if Katniss didn't volunteer, What if Hazel didn't love

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

I do know, dividing our energies among a thousand what-ifs instead of concentrating them for the one sure next-step is a kind of self-sabotage. It's not what we do next week, it's what we do next that counts most.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

I think for guys who get severely injured and can't move forward, it's because the 'what-ifs' absolutely destroy their recovery.

Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.

Counterfactual reasoning, which deals with what-ifs, might strike some readers as unscientific. Indeed, empirical observation can never confirm or refute the answers to such questions.

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

What-ifs are for fools