Dennis Wholey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
-- Dennis Wholey

#Funny #Life #Integrity
I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
-- Dennis Wholey

#Thinking #Anxiety #Gone
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.
-- Dennis Wholey

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One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
-- Dennis Wholey

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When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
-- Dennis Wholey

#Surface #Enjoy
Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.
-- Dennis Wholey

#Being Yourself #Feelings
Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
-- Dennis Wholey

#Adventure #Loss #Focus

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Honor is better than honors.
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Dennis Wholey famous quotes

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