Quotes About Empowerment

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it.

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.

Create the space and a bigger life happens

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.