Quotes About Empowerment

the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.

It is very important that you become your own psychologist. Then you can treat yourself through the understanding wisdom of your own mind; you'll be able to relax...

Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them.

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

I shall go savor the supreme taste of Vajrayana.

We let ourselves be at the mercy of our thoughts and our thoughts at the mercy of our negative emotions, in this way we undermine ourselves. —A TIBETAN SAYING

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools; you have to know how to use them to get done the job you want to get done. Can't do the work if you're scared of the work.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

Women didn't get to be bad boys.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

Running away wasn't empowering. An empowered woman would've indulged.

Teen girls rearrange the fucking world.

but he can't stop himself from loving her. Maybe it's 'cause he knows that in the end, she'll survive him. ... By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

And here's what's really good," continued Belinda. "The publishing industry has a hard time processing Black characters unless we're suffering.

Like Elizabeth Taylor said, 'Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.