S.L. Coelho Quotes
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.
Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.
Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.
Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah
Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.
Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.
Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.
A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.
Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.
I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.
