Libba Bray Quotes

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

I don't regret anything in life.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

I won't cling to the past.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.