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Doug Coupland quotes about change

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal. Doug Coupland
You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures. You popped out of your mother’s belly, I saw your eyes, and I knew that you were already you. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature--the core me--essentially hasn’t changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel... Doug Coupland
In 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. Doug Coupland
And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is..."
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you..."
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself. Doug Coupland
My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self. Doug Coupland
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes. Doug Coupland
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. Doug Coupland
We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again. Doug Coupland
These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan counterattacks or build weapons-- asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe. Doug Coupland
Here's what I think: the five mostunattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change andjealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "If you don't change, then what's the point of anything..."
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and..."
I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and that's a big issue here. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "If you don't change, then what's the point of anything..."
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? Doug Coupland

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