Quotes About Empowerment

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

The goal of this book is do for you what Greg did for me: reframe 26.2 miles as accessible and inspire your first marathon journey, one mile at a time.

You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.

Life only plants the seeds. It's up to us to help them grow.

Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.

No one else but you can actually make you feel love or feel loved. That is solely up to you. Love is an experience that happens within you. It is an experience of your heart being open. If your heart is open, you won't need love from another person. It's only when your heart is closed that you feel a need for love from another.

You choose love over whatever the egoic mind is telling you about life, the past, the future, yourself, someone else, or what you should do. You recognize these messages as coming from the ego, and you choose not to listen to them.

Becoming aware of the beliefs behind the emotional wound frees you from this cycle of pain and hurt.

Don't say yes out of obligation. When you don't feel an inner yes, say no to others' requests for your help. Reserve some of your time and energy for things you love to do.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen

There's nothing a man can do, that i can't do better and in heels

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

si te dijera a cuántas mujeres maravillosas, lindas, sanas, tengo yo que consolar porque sienten que ya perdieron todos los derechos tan sólo porque cumplieron cuarenta. Todo está en la cabeza. Son las ideas las que nos acaban mucho antes de que se acabe el cuerpo.

Pero Sara no entendería que ella se sintiera tan contenta. no entendía el placer de ser uno mismo, tomar decisiones, tener la vida bajo control. Sara había pasado del padre-padre al padre-marido.

La Presidenta había sido muy gráfica explicando con metáforas deportivas por qué iban a descansar de los hombres por una temporada. Dijo que era como cuando en el béisbol había jugadores que se quedaban en el dog out. Las mujeres necesitaban que los hombres se quedaran en él temporalmente, porque aquel partido lo tenían que pichar, batear, cachar y correr las mujeres.

Por lo menos una vez en la vida cada mujer merecía enloquecer de esa manera