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.

Quote by Doug Coupland

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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

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

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year,...

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year,...

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements...

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements...

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger...

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger...

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books...

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books...

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

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

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's...

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's...

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much...

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much...

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end...

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end...

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the...

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the...

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that...

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that...

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them...

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them...