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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• What if obese people couldn't get married?

  Judy Gold

  People, Married, Obese

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• What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Underwear, Spiders

  Song: What If The Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About?, 2002

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• So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

  Bill Richardson

  Pain, Marijuana, Talking

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• What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Girl, Past, Men

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• I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

  Matt Long

  Hate, Thinking, Actors

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• What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Turns, God Exists

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• If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, Defining, Recipes

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• You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen On Negativity And Setbacks — And How To Turn Negative Energy Around". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 06,2013.

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• What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Choices, Doubt, Mystery

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• What if I bade you leave
  The cavern of the mind?
  There's better exercise
  In the sunlight and wind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Exercise, Wind, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.162

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• I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Believe, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

  Emily Giffin

  Two, People, Want

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• What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Appreciate, Honor

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• What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

  Cory Doctorow

  Fighting, Lightning, Umbrella

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan

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• what if a much of a which of a wind
  gives the truth to summer's lie;
  bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
  and yanks immortal stars awry?

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Stars, Lying

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Want, Helping, Mines

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.102, St. Martin's Griffin

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• But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

  Jandy Nelson

  Heart, Break, Music Is

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.63, Penguin

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• What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

  Louise Rennison

  Lost, Horns, Ifs

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• What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

  Joan Osborne

  Religious, Religion, Ifs

  "One of Us" (song) (1995)

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• Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

  Kevin Costner

  Scary, Conventional Wisdom, Ifs

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• But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

  Franz Kafka

  Contentment, Comfort, Tranquility

  Franz Kafka (2003). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Barnes & Noble Classics

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• A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

  Stephen Colbert

  Greatest Fear, Aging, Study

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2012

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• Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

  Black Thought

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Memories, Clouds, Sky

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