Mark Donnelly > Quotes

“When the flames of life are gnawing away at your butt, run faster, quicker, and harder than you've ever run before, because I guarantee it that life will condition you, harder than any trainer ever will.
When you state to yourself with the utter most believe, “I will achieve this,” than you are on the path, and this is when life throws obstacles left, right, straight on and which other way, but keep going. Because you will make it”
― Mark O'Brien

“The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.”
― Mark O'Brien

“A woman betrayed is deadlier than a man's terror's; A woman honored is gentler than a man's expectations.”
― Mark O'Brien

“The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!”
― Mark O'Brien

“Falling in love is as simple as opening your eyes, when you see the one.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Yesterday's shortcuts are today's nightmares. The race is quicker when we're stricter. Keep your eyes on today, and declare what you may.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path.”
― Mark O'Brien, Silent Prophet

“A man betrayed by life's rats either hates and seeks eternal revenge, or forgives and seeks eternal distance; A man honored by life's faithful builds, and builds, and builds. A man indifferent to betrayal is not a man.”
― Mark O'Brien

“It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet within all that can be felt by the heart, is in an instant more powerful than mere words, we need to feel the words, capture the essence of what we see, and revel in the tastes of nature, and let ourselves allow our hearts to sing out loud, wild, and free.”
― Mark O'Brien

“We're all strange in our own strange way.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.”
― Mark O'Brien

“When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.”
― Mark O'Brien

“The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you.”
― Mark O'Brien

“There are so many negative people in this world, so replacing the crap with positive quotes steers our minds to success!”
― Mark O'Brien

“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend from the past, a soul mate of the present, and a protector of the future.

Slowly, softly, and surely through the pages of the past, I have found a new me. There were so many things to learn and so many things remaining to learn. I delight in the truth of why some books I will read, and other I will not. The truth is: I was not choosing.

In pleasing myself with books, I transform myself. And I’ve found sometimes the most amazing keys to unlocking a different part of me in the strangest of books. I go to libraries and there they are waiting for me. I love them, and they love me.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Balance, the stroke of the wise, the style of the sharp. The way, the groove. Bal-ance: the sole of the feet, the soul of the Universe, takes step after step down the beat to time: da DUM, da DUM. Bal. Ance.”
― Mark O'Brien

“Today's problems endure until a shift sparks clarity clearing way for a new vision, a new direction, a new dream budding a new tomorrow.”
― Mark O'Brien

“This is a tough one for heaps of us...if not all of us. We're taught our parents' beliefs, society's beliefs, religions' beliefs, and many other beliefs. Then there's us, caught-up in the middle of this confusion, and life stuff's still happening around us: Our first fight, our first kiss, our first oh! my!, our first failure, our first success, and our first shame.

Then it starts: We recognise a flaw in the beliefs we learnt, and we query it. They say, "Don't worry about it. Take a leap of faith, or Don't waste your time, or..."

So, you say to yourself: It is better to go with the flow, because it hurts too much to go against it. And then we start to please: To please family; to please friends; to please our God.

Then hate starts. All of a sudden we are hating just like our parents, our friends, our society, our God. We developed hate. And the only way out of it is to forgive, and start to love. We then develop self-worth, and we realise that it's okay to be liked, and it's okay not to be liked; it's okay that other people have different views; it's okay that we are all different but one; it's okay to be wrong; it's okay to be right; and it's okay to be ME."

You are an ORIGINAL WINNER!”
― Mark O'Brien

“When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all. And remember we are storytellers. Balance is the key! And let your ear be the guide. Is it too heavy, or too light? Or is it just right?”
― Mark O'Brien

“It is the Eve of Division; It is the Dawn of Revision. We did not come here to lose. We did not come here to be divided.”
― Mark O'Brien