W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“What if the only purpose of a flower is to bloom without the sun. To prove that beauty will grow despite the constant darkness.”
“What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?”
“What if..
The outside world is the illusion
The physical world is your perceived reality
The inner world is you.
What if
The outside world is the reflection of
The physical world of who you are being
that arises from
The inner world, you are projecting ....
What if
The outside world is giving you clues
The physical world is the processor
The inner world is where true empowerment is
What if
We begin with our inner world
Knowing we will create our own realities
What would the outer world look like?
What if
the outside world is the
the physical world is the doing
the inside world is the being
You being YOU is YOUR purpose
You being YOU creates YOUR physical reality
You being YOU creates YOUR outside world.”
“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”
Source: Fallen
“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed to be so universally obvious that they always give their horoscope readers that special eerie feeling of particularity and insight, exploiting the psychological fact that most people are narcissistic and prone to the illusion that they and their problems are uniquely special and that if they’re feeling a certain way then surely they’re the only person who is feeling like that.”
Source: The Pale King
“What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?”
Source: Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“What if the problem isn't that we don't own enough stuff or aren't managing our stuff well enough? What if the problem is that we're living in the homes that advertisers and retailers want us to have instead of the homes that deep down we really want and need?”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?”
“what if the raging inside of you is something beautiful… your curiosity stretching and your soul stirring”
“what if the
raging inside of you
is something beautiful…
your curiosity stretching
and your soul stirring…
all that wildflower energy
in your veins.
and the ache is everything
you've suffocated for so long just
trying to find some way to breathe.
and when it feels like
you're burning it all down,
you're just still learning
how to burn bright.
maybe you go a little wayward
and get a little reckless,
but be easy on your restless heart;
have a little grace with your fire…
you're a wild butterfly finding your way,
just a girl growing wings.”
“What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.”
Source: Kilts and Daggers
“What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living.”
Source: The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
“What if the real struggle isn’t knowing your values — but remembering to live by them?”
Source: If This Won't Get You Thinking, Nothing Will
“What if the saboteurs come while he’s standing there pissing on our truck?”
“Then he’s in trouble.”
Conversation between two Gestapo Officers
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.”
Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
“What if the shape we grew into was just accepted as the natural shape of our bodies, as lovable each new day as it was on the day we were born? What if the body we aged into—those of us lucky enough to grow old—was as beautiful in our own eyes, when we looked in the mirror, as worthy of love and protection, as the body we had on the day we were born? What if the shape of our bodies was peripheral to our relationship with our bodies, and we could pay compassionate attention to our body’s needs without assessing whether it “deserves” food or love?”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.”
“What if the spaces we fear, between breaths, between boards, between who we were and who we might become, are the very air that sets us free?”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“What if the Sun says that I am bored of doing the same tasks again and again everyday.”
“what if the things you feel
inside of you that make it hard for you to
be here are part of why you’re here?
what you have and what you hold inside…
you can’t feel it anywhere else here yet.
but what if the way you can’t feel it anywhere
around you is a reason for you to be here.
because what you feel, what you dream, how you love,
what you create, the way you shift the air and change
the space and pull in the light… it’s how and who you are,
and it’s your light to give here.
those things you feel in you but don’t yet see,
you’re meant to breathe them into being.”
“What if the truth is a lie?
Then you keep telling that truth.”
Source: Stories She Tells
“What if the universe is expanding because when you die, or anyone or anything dies, they become a star?”
Source: Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries
“What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?”
“What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?”
“What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?”
“What if the whole world just held hands?
United as one
Those who opposed, fell off
Disintegrated into the sun
The only thing left of evil was ash
The only thing left on earth was people with passion
Heart for Mother Nature
Caring for their fellow human being
Common considerate behavior
Contribution towards humane higher plane of consciousness”
Source: Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous
“What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?”
“What if the work resisted restraint because it was not meant to be restrained? What if she had very nearly everything she needed for the book to take shape, except for the courage to let it find its own shape? She stopped wrestling with the work so she could dance with it instead. I watched the wheels turn right in front of me, and I saw in Austin a mind simultaneously at work and play. I saw a writer doing their job and a woman remembering who the hell she was and what she wanted.”
Source: Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“What if the world is holding its breath -
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?”
“What if the world we inhabit—with all its confounding
complexities and contradictions—is nothing more than an elaborate stage set, a grand illusion orchestrated by a poorly understood force? If this were true, how could we possibly know for certain? What signs or signals might betray the actual nature of our world and our place in it?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.”
“What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?”
Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World
“what if there are compasses everywhere… in your heart, in the stars, in the depth of your marrow. your dreams are always calling, pulling you closer, and you're never not on your way there.”
“What if there are no villains at all?”
Source: Wide Open
“what if there are no wrong turns?
like really… what if?
what if all of your “wrong turns” are
really just the long way home?”
“what if
there is a life where
your breathing is
allowed to be so easy
and the stars are
allowed to be so close
and your heart is
allowed to run so wild
and your dreams are
allowed to burn so bright
…what if”
“What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom, then dropped it to his side.) We all die. (Omari) I just love teenage angst. By the way, chip, there are worse things in life than dying. (Nero) Like what? (Omari) Living as a slave. (Alix)”
Source: Born of Ice: The League: Nemesis Rising
“What if there is no pot of gold, Anna?” Her mother’s voice joined the breeze. “You need to find your own treasure in moments because life is short and passing as we speak. Don’t waste it.”
Source: Where Secrets Lie
“What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?”
“What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch.
"The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.”
Source: Hollow City
“what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it?”
Source: Drum Machine
“What if there was no tomorrow
and everyone showed up
anyway...”
“What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?”
“What if there was something worth going back to? What if you could face the future without all that’s bound you?”
Source: Portal
“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis / Misery
“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“What if there were no hypothetical questions?”
“What if there were no hypothetical situations?”