I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability. Douglas Coupland More Quotes by Douglas Coupland More Quotes From Douglas Coupland The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything. Douglas Coupland bored knowing answers The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time. Douglas Coupland modern prosperity wealth When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead. Douglas Coupland realizing trying world You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. Douglas Coupland the-end-of-the-day tomorrow ends After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment. Douglas Coupland suicidal doors thinking Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. Douglas Coupland unattractive people thinking 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. Douglas Coupland morning years thinking Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. Douglas Coupland roots running two You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied. Douglas Coupland sadness sorry class If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. Douglas Coupland dont-change stills persons There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else. Douglas Coupland entertainment levels looks In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness. Douglas Coupland computer states way You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos Douglas Coupland chaos whole world I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it. Douglas Coupland chance running thinking I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer. Douglas Coupland cancer mirrors years SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents. Douglas Coupland safety emotional hurt Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Douglas Coupland machines three world The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss. Douglas Coupland wedding veils kissing Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you. Douglas Coupland care real people Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. Douglas Coupland butterfly memories two
