Coentrao Sporting Quotes & Sayings

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life. — Laozi

Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life. — Chikamso Efobi

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously ... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create ... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody ... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. — Hunter S. Thompson

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law. — Gautama Buddha

Things become clear when there is no escape. — Pema Chodron

If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again. — David Stafford