Quotes About Empowerment

Even in a seemingly futile moment or losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who could go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Mandela called this process "the multiplication of courage.

Quiet, ordinary people are often the only people with the real ability to defeat evil. They can give it the Rwandan no.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

All solitary travel offers a sort of special license allowing you to be anyone you want to be

This protest, the rebellion, was a tonic.

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less. Baboons. Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.

Feminists too often believe that no one has never experienced the kind of society that empowered women and made that empowerment the basis of rules and civilization. The price the feminist community must pay because it is not aware is necessary confusion, division and much lost time.

Pero nada le ayudaba tanto como el silencio, excepto las cadenas. Las cadenas y el silencio, que hubieran debido atarla al fondo de sí misma, ahogarla, estrangularla, por el contrario la liberaban.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Two more divorces. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

You are what you believe yourself to be

Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.

Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.