Dawna Markova Quotes

#1. Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

George Washington

#2. Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

Chris Paul

#3. 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

Dawna Markova

#4. 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.

Dawna Markova

#5. 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.

Dawna Markova

#6. 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.

Dawna Markova

#7. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I'll put a whole magazine of bullets in your skull.

Robert J. Crane

#8. One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

Tony Robbins

#9. A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'

Jimmy Fallon

#10. 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?

Dawna Markova

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

Dawna Markova

#12. 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.

Dawna Markova

#13. I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Dawna Markova

#14. The biggest mystery of the people is "The People".

Himmilicious

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

Dawna Markova

#16. There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Joanna Russ

#17. The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

John Gardner

#18. 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.

Dawna Markova

#19. 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.

Dawna Markova

#20. 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.

Dawna Markova

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

Dawna Markova

#22. I will not die an unlived life.

Dawna Markova

#23. 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.

Dawna Markova

#24. Do not grieve the gone,
For life is just a loan,
A miracle, a gift for ones who come from within,
To love and carry on.

Mira Midha

#25. What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Candace Parker

#26. One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory

W.B.Yeats

#27. 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

Dawna Markova

#28. 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.

Dawna Markova

#29. LEARNING IS DISCOVERING THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLE

Dawna Markova

#30. 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.

Dawna Markova