A Quote by Jodi Picoult

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Jodi Picoult

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Happened Ifs Life

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Jodi Picoult
American - Author
Born: May 19, 1966

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Bryce Dallas Howard

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

Sarah Dessen

There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.

Rachel Vincent

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

John Powell

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.

Eckhart Tolle

I equals all of the ifs added up over time. The ifs, those are the possibilities; that's infinite for all of us. Every day there are just millions of them. Time, that's finite for each of us; there is no question there. Maybe if you divide choices by the amount of time you have, the real I can emerge, depending upon those choices.

Demetri Martin

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

Margaret Mitchell

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

Suze Orman

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Bethany Hamilton

Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

Robby Gordon

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Amy Winehouse

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

Thrity Umrigar

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.