Quotes About Empowerment

I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.

Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

Wasn't that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become?

Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.

Never let anyone else name you

even the darkest moments of one's life can be turned around and shed light for others.

It's out of my hands. Then put it back in your hands!

No, don't forget it, but you have to process it and move on. Live your life. Otherwise he took your future away from you too.

O)ne cannot let the event's of one's past murder one's future.

one cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Everyone just calls me Emby. Is that your choice, or theirs? asks the Admiral. Well...theirs, mostly-but I got used to it. Never let anyone else name you, says the Admiral.

5) YOU ARE BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WOULD UNWIND YOU. RISE TO THE OCCASION.

Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two tilled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn't exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.

You can be anyone you want to be now, Unwind (pg. 80)

We can't make you do anything," said one of the scythes she didn't know, a woman in violet with PanAsian leanings.

I won't allow it to control me. My current agony will not define me.

In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

It was Hayden who actually came up with the therm Whollies because Unwind and AWOL were negative labels put on them by the world.

Ich werde es nicht zulassen, dass du dir das Leben nimmst! Es gehört dir nicht!

There is a fine line between freedom and permission.

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do real work.