Dawna Markova Quotes

#1. 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 it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

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#2. LEARNING IS DISCOVERING THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLE

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#3. 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 in our own diminishment.

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#4. 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 a torch, to those who follow

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#5. 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 who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

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#6. I will not die an unlived life.

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#7. To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.

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#8. 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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#9. 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. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

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#10. 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 what I am.

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#11. The tears had turned to ink ...

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#12. 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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#13. The future exists only in our imagination
it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
listening in the silence
until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

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#14. Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

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#15. If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of us have unique environments, needs, and conditions within which we flourish or wither?

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#16. In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

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#17. 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 believe that what you do does not matter.

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#18. My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

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#19. 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 so we can keep them open to what is difficult

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