Quotes About Empowerment

We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands.

Nobody is upsetting you. Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Windmills put the wind to work. Similarly, you can set up an anger mill, which will put your an- ger to work, drawing the living waters of compas- sion and creativity from the depths of your heart to help all those around you.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Every session you lead has two radio stations: WII-FM (What's in It for Me?) and MMFG-AM (Make Me Feel Good About Me).

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

We may not be able to control life's circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

Being so eager to please, we're not easy to liberate. We're too aware of what others need.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modeling self-destructive behavior, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.

accepting that no one person can relate to all of you. Indeed, accepting the loneliness that goes with giftedness may be the most freeing, empowering step of all. But also accept its opposite, that there's no need to feel isolated, for everyone is gifted in some way.

Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion.

Yet when women are spoken for but do not speak for themselves, such dramas of liberation become only the opening scenes of the next drama of confinement. Until women break free for themselves, the chains that make madness a female malady, like Blake's "mind forged manacles," will simply forge themselves anew.

I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.