What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Douglas CouplandIn periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
Douglas CouplandIt was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
Douglas CouplandYou know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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 CouplandThe richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healingโa blanketโthe comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
Douglas Coupland