Quotes About Empowerment

Lower East Side socialism favored the worker over the boss and the group over the individual.

Let it go and Hold on! In the way of so many great philosophies, those apparent opposites prove to be two sides of the same coin. To hold securely to the well-formed purposes of your own will, you must let go of the vain idea that you can control people or events or the tides of fate. You can't change what was, nor entirely control what will be. But you can choose who you are and what you stand for and what you will try to accomplish.

Douglass gave voice to the reality of social death.

Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1855

Though I am not rich, I am not absolutely poor. . . . I am working now less for myself than for those around me. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, MAY 6, 1868

Education and Slavery were incompatible with each other. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1845

Above all, Douglass is remembered most for telling his personal story—the slave who willed his own freedom, mastered the master's language, saw to the core of the meaning of slavery, both for individuals and for the nation, and then captured the multiple meanings of freedom—as idea and reality, of mind and body—as perhaps no one else ever has in America.

My God, woman! Your life was destroyed. You've rebuilt a new one, a deeply productive one, without ever surrendering. You're entitled to not be strong about everything every instant. And you have the right to admit that it hurts, and that things frighten you.

Hatred is a poison, but anger—good, honestly-come-by anger, the kind that stems from outrage, from the need to protect the weak or lift the fallen or stop the cruel—that's not poison. That's strength. Too much of it can lead to hatred, and from there it's one slippery step to self-damnation, but never underestimate the empowering strength of the right sort of anger.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.

If you have seen my YouTube documentary that was the genesis for this book entitled The 2012 Enigma,1 my Web site, Divine Cosmos,2 or some of my television appearances, you probably know I do not believe our future is depressing, terrifying or cataclysmic.

The only one who can tell you You can't is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

As a runner, that's what I know how to do. To strike out on a trail and just go and go and go like there's no tomorrow; to run until my problems fade beneath my feet and the world becomes new again.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Free will, she agreed, our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

she'd known that being a victim was often a choice people made.

Even when we grow old and find ourselves alone again, we don't give a shit.

What stuff is a man made of, who has freed himself of his wounds?

Los verdaderos líderes son aquellos que conocen sus limitaciones y trabajan con ellas. Son fieles a sus palabras, predican con el ejemplo e inspiran a los demás a pasar a la acción por sí mismos.

Eres como Dios cuando fabricas productos para enriquecer las vidas de los demás, no para obtener un beneficio. El benefició vendrá, pero debe ser el Efecto y no la Causa de tu trabajo.

Nunca —y eso Significa Nunca— Culpes a otras Personas o Sucesos Externos.

The guru is in you.

Muchas veces puedes sentirte como suspendido en la nada. Cansado, agobiado, sin fuerzas. Esa sensación no es real, tu mente negativa se apoderó de ti.