Quotes About Empowerment

When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them? THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING.

Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.

This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.

There are so many things to be tortured about. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let someone who doesn't love you be one of them.

It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me.

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

I'm just giving you shit. I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me—just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.

Read it like a motherfucker.

Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay

I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

I think of quotes as mini–instruction manuals for the soul. It

You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from teh one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave.

No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

hen you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them? The word for that is healing.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.O

Rise to the occasion of your one and only heart.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards.