Fennel Hudson Quotes

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

~ Fennel Hudson

The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

~ Fennel Hudson

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

~ Fennel Hudson

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

~ Fennel Hudson

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

~ Fennel Hudson

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

~ Fennel Hudson

I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and with a way of viewing things that is different to before.

~ Fennel Hudson

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

~ Fennel Hudson

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

~ Fennel Hudson

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

~ Fennel Hudson

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

~ Fennel Hudson

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little, the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

~ Fennel Hudson

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

~ Fennel Hudson

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

~ Fennel Hudson

We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply ‘stop’.

~ Fennel Hudson

Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful.

~ Fennel Hudson

Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind.

~ Fennel Hudson

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

~ Fennel Hudson

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

~ Fennel Hudson

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

~ Fennel Hudson

Life. It’s about adventure, of having a dream and following it.

~ Fennel Hudson

Eventually, after much dreaming, the dream no longer suffices. You have to physically be there.

~ Fennel Hudson

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

~ Fennel Hudson

Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can’t see.

~ Fennel Hudson

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

~ Fennel Hudson

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

~ Fennel Hudson

There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.

~ Fennel Hudson

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

~ Fennel Hudson

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

~ Fennel Hudson

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

~ Fennel Hudson

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

~ Fennel Hudson

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

~ Fennel Hudson

The past informs the present.

~ Fennel Hudson

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

~ Fennel Hudson

Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in the modern world. I beg to differ. After all, who has greater faith? He who looks to and learns from the past, or the man who cares not for consequence?

~ Fennel Hudson

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

~ Fennel Hudson

Dive deep and make your discovery.

~ Fennel Hudson

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

~ Fennel Hudson

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

~ Fennel Hudson

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

~ Fennel Hudson