Dawna Markova Quotes
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to…
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I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring…
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Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person…
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Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer…
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I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.
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I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts…
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there.…
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From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are…
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The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and…
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Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were…
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The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the…
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As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted…
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I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until…
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The tears had turned to ink...
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To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and…
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That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
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Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end…
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I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.
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When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical…
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As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep…
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