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    Doug Cooper
    “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, Outside In
    tags: change, change-your-life, hope, stale
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    Doug Cooper
    “Satisfaction is a powerful sleep aid, and after the day I had yesterday, how could I not be content? Uncertainty has returned to my life, and I welcome the possibilities.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: by-cooper, possibilities, satisfaction, sleep-aid, uncertainty
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    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, Outside In
    tags: fresh-start, life-experience, life-lessons, new-beginning
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    Doug Cooper
    “I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: free, lost, nowhere-to-hide, nowhere-to-run
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    Doug Cooper
    “Now I just accept that we’re born each day and we die each night. In between we live our lives.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: born, live-life, live-your-life
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    Doug Cooper
    “Time is the only thing that will heal this, and even that will only lessen the grief. There’s nowhere left to run; nowhere left to hide.”
    ― Doug Cooper
    tags: nowhere-to-hide, nowhere-to-run, time
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    Doug Cooper
    “Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: betting, hedge, risk, winning
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    Doug Cooper
    “Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: cause-and-effect, justice, mind
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    Doug Cooper
    “Just remember, there comes a time when the party isn’t a party anymore; it’s your life.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: life, party, partying
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    Doug Cooper
    “Strangers don't see through the cracks as easily as people who know you.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: outside-in, see-through-actions, strangers
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    Doug Cooper
    “Time doesn't age you; experience does.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: experience, identity, outside-in, time
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    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, Outside In
    tags: cash, identity, islands, outside-in, stranded
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    Doug Cooper
    “Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: conscience, foreplay, identity, outside-in, rationalization
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    Doug Cooper
    “Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: bored, existence, identity, outside-in, question, questions-in-life
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    Doug Cooper
    “The world communicates subtly. Most people don't hear or see the signs because they're so wrapped up in their day-to-day lives.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: day-to-day, lives, signs, signs-of-life, subtlety
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    Doug Cooper
    “You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: brotherhood, friendship, love, moment, trust
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    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, Outside In
    tags: focus, freedom, hope, identity, outside-in, paying-attention
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    Doug Cooper
    “All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: commitment, identity, outside-in, words-never-last
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    Doug Cooper
    “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, Outside In
    tags: identity, outside-in, quitting, running-away
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    Doug Cooper
    “Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: consistency, identity, outside-in, spice-of-life, variety
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    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, Outside In
    tags: identity, imprisonment, outside-in, silence, walls
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    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, Outside In
    tags: identity, orgasm, outside-in, thinking-too-much
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    “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, Outside In
    tags: boredom, identity, monotony, outside-in
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  • #24
    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, Outside In
    tags: avoidance, confrontation, decisions, identity, outside-in
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    Doug Cooper
    “What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.”
    ― Doug Cooper
    tags: addiction, cooper, creativity, identity, imagination, islands, outside-in, self-medication
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    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, Outside In
    tags: addiction, dance, dancer-fever, identity, outside-in, put-in-bay, sore
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    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, Outside In
    tags: acceptance, belonging, brotherhood, coincidence, companionship, drive, identity, lost, meaning, outside-in, soul
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  • #28
    Doug Cooper
    “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, Outside In
    tags: art, identity, outside-in, practice, say-no, saying-no, to-exist
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    Doug Cooper
    “Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.”
    ― Doug Cooper, Outside In
    tags: buzz, identity, outside-in, trapped, wake-up
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    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, Outside In
    tags: closing-in, discontent, identity, outside-in, searching, true-feelings
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