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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#age #being #certain #certain age #constantly

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#cells #day #die #every #every day

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#believe #bolster #fight #must #nations

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#aunt #await #children #come #district

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed. ↗

— David Coverdale

#changed #express #hasn #i #loved

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#because #character #composite #consistent #constantly

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ↗

— Noel Coward

#caviar #glorious #like #never #ought