Following your reply, I decided that sparing 30 minutes for generating a list of thoughts/ questions is a worthwhile exercise
at least for my gray cells that are objectively diminishing. So here I am, trying to be reflective:
-Are you a male or female?; How old are you?; The only constant thing in life is change.; It is better to regret something you have done
than something you haven't.; If not you then who? And if not now,then when?;Whether you think you can or you think you can't – you're usually right.
7)The way we spend our days is, of course, the way we spend our lives.
8)Make your luck. You will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
9)If you always do what you have always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
10)Suffer fools gladly.
11)Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
12) If there is anything unsettled to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
13)If you want to live a happy life, tie to a goal, not to people or objects.
14)If you are failing every now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
15)If your happiness depends on what somebody else does. I guess you do have a problem.
16)If you can put a Question,'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
17)If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself,you have not planned enough.
18) If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
19)If you are lonely while you're alone, you are in a bad company.
20)If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekineses?
21)If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
22)If you don't tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
23)If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being,then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.
24)If the only tool you have is the hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
25)If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes – stop boring.
26)If women were cars( or sports, or video games), men would have no trouble expressing how they feel.
27) If you have many reasons to be happy, don't mention them to unhappy people.
28)If you are offended by bad odors don't rummage around in the trash.
29)If you're a surviving and conforming subsystem in a sick organism, that does not mean you're healthy either.
30)It is best to give others the impression that you can change your mind easily.
31)Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so.
32) Once a truly intelligent person makes up his mind about the answer to a problem he rarely continues to think about it.
33)All in all, it is better to be humble and honest than to be important and dishonest.
34)The world would be a much better place to live in if people let the future take care of itself and concern themselves only with enjoying the present.
35)It is wise to flatter important people.
36)It is a good working policy to keep on good terms with everybody.
37)Most people would be better off if they controlled their emotions.
38)The well being of the individual is the goal that should be worked for before anything else.
39)Honesty is the best policy in all cases.
40)If anything does not help us in our daily lives, it is not important!!!!
41)Once a decision is made it is best to keep on changing it as New circumstances arise.(Devoted to Tara Joyce!).
Woops! What is going on? Was I trying to straighten crooked cucumbers? Or distracting gulliver from building her empire developing websites?
Is anybody still bothered by external stuff? If anyone is to be blamed it is only me.That is why friends are – to lend a helping hand when necessary.
After all a lonely single hand can never wash itself on her own!

And, I didn't ignore your earlier 'do 'ifs' count? remark… firmly in the spirit of 'you have tolisten to the lyrics as well as the tune'… Do if's count? (7) Of course they bloody do.

The 'ifs' are often among life's worthier bits. Howso? (6) They encouage, enable & assist us to question things on a wider and deeper level.

Where are the other 300+ readers who don't comment? (5)
Why don't they? (4)
Can they be encouraged and assisted to do so? (3)
Is it worth it? (2)
Do you want to? (1)

WHY?

It's the pearls that grab me. Why? (15)

Me, sit down for a whole 30 minutes? (14)

Oh, enough of this, girl… we have empire-developing websites to build. Don't we? (13)

Since you seem to be a man with the answer's — can you tell me what
my real hair colour is? Perhaps washing, rinsing and repeating will
bring me that answer too.

Now, that *does* create value. Why? Wash, rinse, repeat.