Quotes About Empowerment

If you are operating under the illusion that you can continue to hold on to people who you know are not good for you, and still create an extraordinary life filled with love and fulfillment, then you are fooling yourself. Toxic ties cost us and they cost us big time. If you are feeling stuck in your life, look to see who or what it is that you are stuck to.

Every way that you've given away your power, denied your own deeper knowing, put someone else's feelings and needs before your own, stayed embedded in a victimized story, or settled for less in life—all of it is now up for review. You have nowhere to hide. Life has broken you open and it is violently, mercilessly forcing you to evolve, to develop, and to grow.

Until you are able to see yourself living the life that you truly want, it will be difficult for you to create it.

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

The truth is, we simply cannot continue to invest our energies in our neuroses, our dramas, our resentments, and our fears and think that we are a space for love.

Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.

Sisterhood is powerful.

For the first time, she felt proud to lay claim to her gender. Perhaps men had life easier. But they would never know this. They would never walk the shadow lands of pain and death to be part of the miracle of life.

You'll mend, you may never let another man near you again, but you'll be strong. Woman are. When a man breaks he stays broken.

Tomorrow, I will embody what it means to be aging gracefully. I will be the Perfect Single Guest. I will be Katharine Hepburn (at thirty-three, not eighty) of the wedding. I am going alone. And I am not allowing myself one second of self-deprecation. Not one second. Affirmations and visuals. I am Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. I am Bette Davis in All About Eve. I am anyone, anyone at all, but me, Diana Moore, of brown hair, nine of shoe, and wide of thigh.

Women might be beaten senseless by their husbands in the house next door, but it was never mentioned.

After all, from the ankles down, I still had it all going on.

No matter what anyone "does to you" along your path to either personal or professional happiness, that person cannot interfere with your destiny. Only you are in control of that, within the master plan created with God.

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

What would you like to do with it?' he pressed. Grace thought a moment. 'Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.' He

Better to go alone than to be badly accompanied. - Madame Dariaux

When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat.

A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Whether working with an organization or going forward alone, youth from preteens to young adults often spark action for change. In other words, they take seriously the old motto "Don't Just Stand There, Do Something!

Yoga isn't just about showing up on the mat. It's about showing up in your life, in your day; it's about opening your heart while standing firm and strong and believing in yourself.

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