Quotes About Empowerment

You don't need to change who you are. You just need to be able to know who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

If you cannot get rid of the skeleton in the closet- you may as well take it out and make it dance.

Have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

If you're in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, focus on believing in yourself and share your uniqueness to the world.

Today... You're on your own you know what to decide and where to go...

If you want to give up what weighs you down. "Do what is right, "Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

In the end we will only be transformed when we can recognize and accept the fact that there is a will within each of us, quite outside the range of conscious control, a will which knows what is right for us, which is repeatedly reporting to us via our bodies, emotions, and dreams, and is incessantly encouraging our healing and wholeness.

Wouldn't a woman who paid attention to her dreams, and tried to adopt choices based on their direction and value system, be successful, even if she were departing further and further from the approval of her family?

Man has only his two feet to stand on, his own human trinity to see him through: Reason, Courage, and Grace. And the first plus the second equals the third.

Go into the fear, deal with it, lest you live a fugitive life.

So, then, now you know your task: to become what the gods want, not what your parents want, not what your tribe wants, but what the gods want, and what your psyche will support if consciousness so directs.

Imagine what our story would look like if, rather than succumbing to the insistent voices of family or culture, we determined that our vocation was to be a better human.

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

No serás el dueño de otros ni tampoco su esclavo.

No matter how you cut it, I was back to the short form of the Serenity Prayer, known in AA and other recovery groups as Fuck It.

It's strange how people bloom, even in poisonous soil, once they allow themselves to become what they've always been.

and began making coffee without asking permission.

When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address or a home. You're nothing. It's like a stain you can't wash out of your soul

Success doesn't come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.

Providing power is the only way forward." She

if you want to have a significant impact on people, on organizations, and on communities, you'd be wise to invest in learning the behaviors that enable you to become the very best leader you can.

show my trust in others in order to build their trust in me.