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01Undated

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 Donnelly / quote

02Undated

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.

Mark Donnelly / quote

03Undated

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.

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04Undated

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.

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05Undated

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 Donnelly / quote

06Undated

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!

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07Undated

We're all strange in our own strange way.

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08Undated

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.

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09Undated

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.

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10Undated

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.

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11Undated

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

Mark Donnelly / quote

12Undated

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

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13Undated

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 Donnelly / quote