Quotes About Empowerment

We must lead with the power of our womanly knowingness and let new careers take shape around it.

Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.

Marianne Williamson

Only if we rethink the world will we be able to re-create it. Only in transforming our hearts will we be able to transform the world.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

Forgiveness sets me free of pain.

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

Dios es más grande que cualquier circunstancia limitada de nuestro pasado; Dios es más grande que cualquier limitación que el mundo nos presente ahora. Las limitaciones sólo existen como un reto para que maduremos espiritualmente y nos demos cuenta de que, con la Gracia de Dios, podemos superarlas.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

El crecimiento nunca tiene que ver con concentrarnos en las lecciones de otra persona, sino en las nuestras. No somos víctimas del mundo exterior. Por más difícil que sea creerlo a veces, siempre somos responsables de nuestra manera de ver las cosas. No

Una vez que estamos absolutamente convencidos de que no hay respuestas definitivas por fuera de uno mismo, comenzamos a buscarlas donde realmente se encuentran: en nuestro interior.

Nuestro miedo más profundo es que somos enormemente poderosos. Es nuestra luz, no nuestra oscuridad lo que más nos asusta

Nuestra capacidad de brillar es igual a nuestra capacidad de olvidar el pasado y el futuro.

For in any given moment, regardless of circumstances, I can choose again. I can choose strength instead of weakness, and love instead of fear. I can choose to bless instead of blame, and to lean into the future rather than dragging with me the past.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Les femmes n'ont pas de nom. Elles ont un prénom. Leur nom est un prêt transitoire, un signe instable, leur éphémère. Elles trouvent d'autres repères. Leur affirmation au monde, leur être là, leur création, leur signature, en sont déterminés. Elles s'inventent dans un monde d'hommes, par effraction.

That was just the means by which he would be totally and constantly surrounded by Black people; and it was the means by which they would all know his name.

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one's own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.

I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Thus capitalism, which elevated patriarchy by turning its major value, power, into the only value, also destabilized it by enabling women for the first time in history to become economically independent.

They saw women in the public sphere as whores, thieves, she-men with the audacity to carry guns and wear pants.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.