Douglas Coupland

"Health is invisible until you lose it."

"Adventure is what happens when you stop planning."

"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."

"Technology is a mirror of human nature."

"History repeats itself because we don't learn it."

"Philosophy is thinking about thinking."

"Literature preserves the soul of a generation."

"Politics is compromise pretending to be principle."

"War is failure of everything else."

"Motivation is a conversation you have with yourself."

"Inspiration is 10% perspiration and 90% observation."

"Relationships are currency for the soul."

"Family teaches you who you are and who you don't want to be."

"Work without purpose is just employment."

"Dreams are reality's younger sibling."

"Humor is courage in the face of absurdity."

"Beauty is what remains after everything unnecessary is removed."

"Death is the ultimate permission to live."

"Perseverance is refusing to accept today's defeat."

"Gratitude turns what you have into enough."

"Creativity is connecting dots others don't see."

"Justice delayed becomes injustice completed."

"Patience is the discipline of accepting the pace of life."

"The future is just history that hasn't happened yet."

"Forget about being cool and you'll be cool."

"We are the middle children of history, no purpose or place."

"Ambition is just love with a new name."

"The decade that taste forgot was the 1970s."

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."

"Your life is a sculpture that you are constantly carving."