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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#code #creepy #dress #more #than

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#contact #dressed #eye #eye contact #making

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#dead #death #idols #less #makes

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

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#part #possess #something #take #witness

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

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ↗

— Georges Courteline

#life #necessary #oneself #other #people

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

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#facts #optimism #pessimism #prospects #time

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