"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 carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us."

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Source : Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

Dawna Markova

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“I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.”
“I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.”

Source : "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.
“In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.”
“You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.”
“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.”
“My teammates are the best.”
“We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.”
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

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