Quotes About Empowerment

To pierce and penetrate into the estate of every one's understanding that thou hast to do with: as also to make the estate of thine own open, and penetrable to any other.

i. Nothing can happen to me that isn't natural. ii. I can keep from doing anything that God and my own spirit don't approve. No one can force me to.

We are each of us stronger than we think.

Today I escaped from all bothering circumstances- or rather I threw them out. They were nothing external, but inside me, just my own judgements. p87

25. So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

Focus on each person's strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don't try to fix the weaknesses. Don't try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and then let each person find his own route toward those outcomes.

Partnership is not the crutch of the imperfect, but the secret of the successful.

Freedom is participation in power.

For old age is respected only if it defends itself, maintains its rights, submits to no one, and rules over its domain until its last breath.

User de ce qu'on a, et agir en tout selon ses forces, telle est la règle du sage.

É impossível não ser felicíssimo quem em tudo depende apenas de si e em si mesmo tudo apóia.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

If I could give the young people ... but one word of advice, it would be this - 'Believe in yourself with all your might'. That is, believe that your destiny is inside you, that there is a power within you which if awakened, aroused, developed and matched with honest effort, will not only make a noble man or woman of you, but will also make you successful and happy.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

I am not your justification for existence.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.

we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.