Doug Cooper Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Time doesn't age you; experience does.

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.

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

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

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

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

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

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

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 One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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