Quotes About Empowerment

You Shape Your Own Reality Every Day

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

To look in the mirror and like what you see even if it's not your idea of beauty

I'm like superman when I get Charlese's clothes on. I got a new attitude and my teachers sure don't like it none ~page 4

You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don't, who will??

It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk," she says, shaking her hips like she's doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. "To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like anybody else's idea of beauty." For a minute

They're all good ones, Mr. Mac. Some of them just need more support than others.

What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

Delete, delete, delete. No way am I letting their negativity mess me up. I have enough to worry about.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Why be unhappy about something if you can do something about it? If you can't do anything about it, why be unhappy about it?

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.