Quote by JRR Tolkien

“I guess we can all look back and see things in our lives that we could or should have done differently—and better—and”

— Duff McKagan

“There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have…

— Ned Vizzini

“There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have…

— Ned Vizzini

“Things should have been so different to the way they are now.”

— Emma Cameron

“Acknowledge the fact that life could always be worse, but live as though it couldn't be better.”

— Shelby Newman

“This time should have been no different. But it was.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.”

— Andrew Kendall

“I like things to be what they're going to be. Not what they were. Or could have been.”

— Angie Smibert

“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace of mind,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Sometimes when you're making the best of a situation, it turns out far better than you could have hoped for.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“Sometimes I just wished life could be different”

— Johan Twiss

“Sometimes different is not better,”

— Anne Eliot