Quotes About Empowerment

Très Ya-Ya-No!

Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.

That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

So many of us were taught to keep a lid on anything and everything outrageous. To just turn it off. We turn off our life force, turn off our feelings, turn off our sensuality, and as a consequence, we turn off our power.

Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.

I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.

When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

There is no human alive today who was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman.

Rupture allows the part of a woman that she has outgrown to die and fall away. It updates the parts of us that feel helpless; like we need someone to do it for us. It forces us to take a seat firmly inside of our power. It is required for us to grow.

Negative attention desecrates our altar. But we women have been giving ourselves negative attention so consistently, and for so long, that we do not even see it as a problem.

We have no experience prioritizing our own joy or making an investment in ourselves. But it is very easy to say yes to responsibility and obligation. We are highly motivated when we can be of service to someone else.

The world is designed to take the wind out of a woman's sails. To fill her with fear about all the ways she is inadequate. We each need the focus and determination of warrior women to fight the tide of self-hatred that comes from living in a culture that devalues us.

Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.

The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.

Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen--to hear --so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.

JUNE 1 WHEN WE ARE able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions done in one's past, we strengthen ourselves and can solve the problems of the present constructively.

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

If you cannot change the kings," the Sufis argued, "then change yourself.

Fear is an affirmation of your growth

The Wheel of Fear is as smart, knowledgeable, educated and spiritual as you are

Living in expectation dis empowers and living in intentions empowers.

There's nothing wrong with you, it's just fear.