Doug Cooper Quotes

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.
Doug Cooper
Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.
Doug Cooper
I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?
Doug Cooper
There's nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think--and more often than not, to think too much.
Doug Cooper
There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think--and more often than not, to think too much.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.
Doug Cooper
All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.
Doug Cooper
The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.
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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.
Doug Cooper
I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.
Doug Cooper
Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.
Doug Cooper
Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?
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I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.
Doug Cooper
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
Doug Cooper
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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What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.
Doug Cooper
Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.
Doug Cooper
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.
Doug Cooper
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?
Doug Cooper