"If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love."

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Source : "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

Douglas Coupland

#Want Quotes #Return Quotes #Intimate Quotes

“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”
“[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.”
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donâ€™t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donâ€™t know who your friends are, you donâ€™t know what you owe anybody, you donâ€™t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”
“Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.”
“Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.”
“He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.”
“It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.”

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