#les

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#being #different #different worlds #ego #me

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#another #care #cruelest #lest things #more

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#apply #aspects #because #get #lesson

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#clueless #dating #financial #people #seminars

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

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

— Doug Coupland

#dead #death #idols #less #makes

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#cartoon #constantly #continuous #fabric #miracles

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

It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there. ↗

— Jim Courier

#challenges #cycles #december #final #finishes