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Quotes About Empowerment

Whatever you do, don't try to make those feelings go away." His advice went on: "Anything you can learn about working with your sense of discouragement or your sense of fear or your sense of bewilderment or your sense of feeling inferior or your sense of resentment—anything you can do to work with those things—do it, please, because it will be such an inspiration to other people.
~ Pema Chodron
Trying to cheer yourself up isn't easy, and sometimes it feels hypocritical, like going against the grain. But the reminder is that if you want to change your habitual stuckness, you're the only one who can do it.
~ Pema Chodron
It's up to you how to use your life. It doesn't mean that you have to be the best one at cheering up, or that your habitual tendencies never get the better of you. It just has to do with this sense of reminding yourself.
~ Pema Chodron
We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.
~ Pema Chodron
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
~ Yoko Ono
We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.
~ Margaret Cho
Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.
~ Eric Drooker
I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me
~ Lori Lesko
Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.
~ Regena Thomashauer
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
~ George Henry Lewes
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
~ Maria Montessori
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
~ Faith Ringgold
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
~ Banksy
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
~ Helio Gracie
It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
~ Lauryn Hill
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
~ Keith Haring
Art is for everybody.
~ Keith Haring
Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.
~ Esha Gupta
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
~ Joseph Campbell
Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action
~ Gabrielle Roth