Gamal Hennessy > Gamal's Quotes

“I have chosen two concepts to guide my thoughts and actions. They are stronger than the pressure of society, the constraints of morality, the need to procreate, desire for wealth, the promise of Heaven, or the threat of Hell. I live for love and pleasure, or nothing at all.”
― Gamal Hennessy

“Always consider the source of your advice. Advice cannot be neutral, the source of advice is just as important as actual words.”
― Gamal Hennessy

“Remember who you are. When you encounter things you think you can’t deal with, remember all the things you have dealt with before. Remember all your triumphs and all the times you overcame defeat. Remember who you are and use that strength to raise your head high, win or lose”
― Gamal Hennessy

“Being single won’t make you happy. Dating someone won’t make you happy. Being married won’t make you happy. Being a parent won’t make you happy. Divorcing won’t make you happy. The only thing that can make you happy is your choice to be happy…”
― Gamal Hennessy

“A pleasurable life balances health, wealth and love. Without health, it is hard to enjoy wealth or love. Without wealth, it's difficult to maintain health or focus attention on the ones we love. Without love, a long healthy life and endless riches are nothing more than an empty hollow prison. Excessive focus on any one aspect to the detriment of the other two robs us of a life worth living.”
― Gamal Hennessy

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
― Willa Cather

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“We love to obsess about the problems, drama and scandals in the lives of public figures because it gives us a perfect vehicle to pass judgment without consequences and avoid dealing with our own issues.”
― Gamal Hennessy

“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.”
― Graham Greene, The Human Factor