Wisdom Quote by Douglas Coupland — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.”

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”

“And then I felt sad because 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. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

“You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place!”

“Embracing critical moments of transition with intention and mindfulness is fundamentally important for personal growth, resilience, and recognizing one's own transformative potential.”

“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”

“Conquer the most difficult mountains by staying on your knees. Keep praying for wisdom and never give up on your dreams.”

“Transformation is not a one-time project. It is not a makeover. It is not a narrative arc with a tidy ending. It is an ongoing, imperfect, necessary unfolding.”

“You need to trust”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”