"When cancer first came into my life, people……" — Dawna Markova
"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 team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at."
—
Dawna Markova
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
20 Quotes by Dawna Markova
Dawna Markova has 20 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose…
-
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be…
-
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity…
-
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given…
-
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose…
-
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary…
-
Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you…
-
From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only…
-
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his…
-
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it…
-
The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the…
-
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we…
See all 20 quotes by Dawna Markova »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »