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Doug Coupland quotes about inspirational

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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Doug Coupland quote: "You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. Doug Coupland
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. Doug Coupland
Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe... Doug Coupland
What one moment from you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway?’’ There is silence. Tobias doesn’t get her point, and frankly, neither do I. She continues: ‘’Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don’t count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you’re really alive. Doug Coupland
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear. Doug Coupland
...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
Doug Coupland quote: "If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?"
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to..."
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. Doug Coupland
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your..."
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. Doug Coupland
I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. Doug Coupland
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. Doug Coupland
Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young."
You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "So where do you start when you want to start your life again?"
So where do you start when you want to start your life again? Doug Coupland

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