“Success is secondary to impact. Success is a list of what you win, gain and attain - it may pass it may remain. Impact is the test; the hearts, minds and lives you touch, enhance and forever change...”
“When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why children's books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child how to become a compassionate citizen of the world, or how to live a meaningful existence by being a positive asset to humanity, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“There’s never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it’s pointing.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“Dive deep and make your discovery.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“You can't kill time, only a part of your life that would otherwise have been happy.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”
Source: Court Duel
“It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“It’s better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“It’s important to believe in something, a spirit in things and a higher purpose. Something I call ‘True Beauty’.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3