When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?
Douglas CouplandYou can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Douglas CouplandIt's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
Douglas Coupland