Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas CouplandPeople who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
Douglas CouplandDo you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.
Douglas Coupland