Doug Cooper Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.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

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

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.

Time doesn't age you; experience does.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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