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My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

Douglas Coupland
Kindness, Giving, Sick
Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Douglas Coupland
Giving, Perspective, Parent
Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.120, Hachette UK

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Douglas Coupland
Book, Giving, Loan

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

Douglas Coupland
People, Giving, Care
"Microserfs". Book by Douglas Coupland, June, 1995.

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

Douglas Coupland
Opposites, Giving, Drug

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Douglas Coupland
Opportunity, Hands, Giving

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

Douglas Coupland
Giving, Envy, Perspective

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