Dennis Adonis quotes

“Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.”
-- Dennis Adonis

#Swimming Quotes #Sea Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2010.

“The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.”

“All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”

“The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.”

“I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.”

“Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.”

“I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.”

“Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted”

“Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.”