Doug Cooper Quotes

#1. Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.

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#2. I'm like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

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#3. Satisfaction is a powerful sleep aid, and after the day I had yesterday, how could I not be content? Uncertainty has returned to my life, and I welcome the possibilities.

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#4. Now I just accept that we're born each day and we die each night. In between we live our lives.

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#5. Just remember, there comes a time when the party isn't a party anymore; it's your life.

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#6. TIME PASSES SWIFTLY WHEN A PERSON DOESN'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING. Or maybe it's that when a person looks back, he doesn't recall anything significant to mark the passing time, so he remembers it as one complete piece of his life.

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#7. Maybe winning isn't everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.

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#8. Strangers don't see through the cracks as easily as people who know you.

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#9. Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

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#10. On the island, the recipe for an entertaining evening is drink this, smoke that, snort this, eat that. How do you feel? Well, try this and some of that.

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#11. Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

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#12. Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

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#13. I have nowhere to go and no place I'm supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?

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#14. Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

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#15. All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.

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#16. To exist here, I'll have to become skilled in saying no - an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

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#17. Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go.

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#18. I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

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#19. There's a drive in a lost soul - in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

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#20. Time is the only thing that will heal this, and even that will only lessen the grief. There's nowhere left to run; nowhere left to hide.

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#21. Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

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#22. Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.

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#23. True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.

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#24. T may not be the life you imagined, but it's your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

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#25. When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

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#26. There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think
and more often than not, to think too much.

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#27. Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.

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#28. Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

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#29. Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded
as long as you have cash.

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#30. Time doesn't age you; experience does.

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#31. I never get used to the faces
wide-eyed and full of possibility
staring bad at me.

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#32. The world communicates subtly. Most people don't hear or see the signs because they're so wrapped up in their day-to-day lives.

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#33. Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

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#34. I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.

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#35. What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.

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#36. My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I've constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

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#37. You earn brotherhood - the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it - moment by moment through how you treat others.

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#38. The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

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