Orna Ross > Quotes

“It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross, Beyond The Law of Attraction: A Creativist Compendium

“You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.”
― Orna Ross, Beyond The Law of Attraction: A Creativist Compendium

“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”
― Orna Ross, After The Rising

“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”
― Orna Ross

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but what if you are the beauty? Then, it's the look in a man's eye coming at you, telling you know more than you want to know. It's the dislike they deal you for desiring you. Beauty doesn't write the book or raise the child or learn the knowledge. It's for the beholder, not the holder.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”
― Orna Ross

“It is inner, not outer, achievement that wins peace.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“A mother's place is in the wrong.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“Calling all mothers! Some advice for you. If you have a little girl, don't be the kind of mother who says: "All I want is for her to be happy." No, no, no. Want her to be top of her class. Want her to become Chairman of the Board. Want her to marry a millionaire. Want something negotiable, so she has room to rebel. If all you want is for her to be happy, all she can do to separate from you is be miserable.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“When you're born into a burning house, you think the whole world's afire. Our job as creativists is to take the burning embers of our past and use them to ignite a different kind of fire.”
― Orna Ross

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”
― Orna Ross

“When looked at from the woman’s side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“How you do money is how you do life.”
― Orna Ross

“When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“Mother is a verb as well as a noun. We all, male and female, have the capacity to mother others.
And each of can, always, mother ourselves.”
― Orna Ross, Circle of Life: Inspirational Poetry for Mothers and Other Carers

“You know, Mercy, it is really very simple." He took my hand. "He has no power, hon. Not unless you hand yours over.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“I came to hate how everything gets junked in America: the food processed and adulterated with sugar and fat; the clothes cheapened; the TV dumbed down; the sex commodified. So that no matter how much we're given, we never feel sated, we're always craving. I came to see how we're addicted to addiction.”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“Wherever there is fear, there is creative treasure. Something important lies buried.”
― Orna Ross, Go Creative! It's Your Native State: Applying The Creative Process To Life

“How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?”
― Orna Ross, Blue Mercy

“The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and a mature economy can only achieve growth by making us feel abject, hungry and isolated from ourselves and each other. Making us hate ourselves from the inside out ensures we will overspend, over-consume and over-indulge...”
― Orna Ross

“The eyes of your creative power see in all directions.”
― Orna Ross, Beyond The Law of Attraction: A Creativist Compendium

“Each of us was mothered into being.”
― Orna Ross, Circle of Life: Inspirational Poetry for Mothers and Other Carers

“Is not one’s art made out of the struggle in one’s soul?”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“How much easier it is to be wise for another than for ourselves.”
― Orna Ross

“We must learn, or die.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel

“Our wound is our way.”
― Orna Ross, The Writer's Call

“He is everything she expected, all that she seeks: hushed, musical eerie voice, dark looks, dreamy haunted expression, an adventurer of the imagination. Words spill from him, as he waxes about the Middle Ages and visions and talks invocations like a sorcerer.”
― Orna Ross, Her Secret Rose: A Literary Historical Novel