Quotes About Empowerment

În orice caz, da, frica a fost pur È™i simplu problema mare a perioadei mele de È™colaritate: z?vorul ei. De aceea, urgenÈ›a mea, când am devenit profesor, a fost s? îngrijesc frica celor mai slabi dintre elevii mei pentru a ace z?vorul s? se deschid?, pentru ca informaÈ›ia s? aib? È™ansa s? circule

Un libro ben scelto ti salva da qualsiasi cosa, persino da te stesso.

Todo lo malo que se dice de la escuela nos oculta el número de niños que ha salvado de las taras, los prejuicios, la altivez, la ignorancia, la estupidez, la codicia, la inmovilidad o el fatalismo de las familias

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Don't let people's words bring you down

it's possible to go through our time on this ball floating in space without realizing that Fear has been pulling our strings all along. Our inner tyrant has made for us most of our choices—even those we were not aware of making. The fucked-up part about it is that Fear makes it easy for us to go along with this. It doesn't hurt us in an obvious way. It numbs us before injecting us with its poison—a slow form of euthanasia that takes a few decades to come to its conclusion. In

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

You—with all your weaknesses and flaws—were made for this. You—in all of your struggles and pain—are enough.

If previous generations of women were raised to believe that they could only realise themselves within the roles of wife and mother, now the opposite is thought true: It is only outside these roles that we are able to realise our full potential and worth as human beings.

All the women in me are tired.

Every day, I try to be my own parent - the parent I never had.

I was surrounded by whiteness and hadn't yet learned that I was beautiful in a different way.

Danielle Henderson

If anyone tries to grab you, you know what to do?" I rolled my eyes again. "Cut his dick off." "That's right," Grandma said. She pointed at me and tilted her head up to look me in the eye. "If anybody ever puts their hands on you, you cut their pecker right off.