Quotes About Empowerment

I found Goddess in myself and I loved her fiercely is saying Female power is strong, the divine principle, the saving and sustaining power, is in herself.

The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison

Routine is liberating, it makes you feel in control.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

If you won't be you...who will?

I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read, she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.

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She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.

Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.

We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most. Women

If you sincerely believe that God loves you, then you're not a victim of anything anymore. It's happening to open up opportunities for us to become more aligned with our higher purpose. I

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

self-knowledge promotes choice and action, and many people feel unready for either.

realize the importance of the words of Polonius, "To thine own self be true." For without personal power, life is a frightening, painful experience.

Gaining an awareness of our own limitations opens us to considering choices we would not otherwise have made.

Land. It means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery.

healing. I now equate faith with self-esteem and personal power, because low self-esteem reflects one's lack of faith in oneself as well as in the powers of the unseen world.

The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power.

Don't waste time by thinking, acting, or praying like a victim. Feeling victimized only adds to your illness, and should it become a full-time state of mind, it would qualify as an illness in itself.

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Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Get up in the morning and make the decision to take a step forward instead of two backward for that day. Let go of the guilt, and stop feeling sorry for yourself. Don't let the what-ifs drive you crazy, because they will if you let them. I'm speaking from experience.

Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be

it's been laid on my heart and I want to help others get away from abusive spouses.