Quotes About Empowerment

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

You can easily create the life you deserve.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

There's no one else who can make the daily decisions—eating well, exercising regularly—that deliver lifelong health. In other words, being healthy is a "do-it-yourself" project. Seen in that light, we are all biohackers. Yet too many people entrust their day-to-day decisions to authority figures—the tools, as it were—on the assumption that the experts actually know what they're talking about.

frees the body to heal itself. In taking away the fear, confusion and feelings of victimization so characteristic of TMS, we give the body a chance to do "its own thing.

It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

I used to fear barking dogs. I would cringe and say to myself, 'Nice doggie please don't bite me I'll just go away,' but by that night I could look at them and think, I am your worst nightmare. Come closer and I will impale you upon my stick. The more I firmly visualized it, the more the dogs believed it. Now the tables had turned. Now the dogs feared me.

That was the definition of management—getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.

A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.

The purpose of relationships is to help awaken you to the inherent balance existing within and around you, and to assist you in acknowledging your own magnificence and wholeness.