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“You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.”
Vivi Andrews, Serengeti Heat“He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens”
Jo Graham“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
John Greenleaf Whittier“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”
Eric Hoffer“She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”
Judi Fennell, In Over Her Head“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”
Nikki Giovanni“If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.”
Shelly Branch, What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living“He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.”
Kasie West, Pivot Point“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?”
Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain