You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas CouplandIf you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Douglas CouplandAnd any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
Douglas CouplandMake your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas CouplandI say โUhmm...โ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says itโs a CPU word. It means youโre assembling data in your head - spooling.
Douglas CouplandI am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worryโloneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one factโloneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
Douglas Coupland