Quotes About Empowerment

The master of your brain is your soul

Enlightenment is choice.

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. What you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

When everyone resonates with the holiness and greatness within, we can overcome personal limitations and create mature change for the future of the earth--Ilchi Lee in "The call of Sedona

I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose for their lives. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

Si sus hombres tuvieran las agallas y la constancia de aquella mujer, en aquel momento serían dueños del mundo entero.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

anyone who says'by any means necessary' is a violent statement is violent themselves, because it is a comprehensive statement... It could be political, social, religious.

I'm not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I'm meant to fight against them. I can't hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.

The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.

How could anyone mistake Mom for white? Mom was a proud black woman, the proudest I knew. She hated us having to take welfare food, hated accepting anything we needed but did not earn. We had a picture of Marcus Garvey on the living-room wall, talking about going back to Africa, talking about the power of blackness and the strength of the Negro heart. I couldn't imagine looking at Mom and not seeing that.

Papa, who instructed us to always hold our heads up, who promised us we were worthy, who assured us we were descended from kings—and from architects and farmers and healers and visionaries—no matter what all the hateful people in the world had to say about us.

I'm making friends. Feeling good. My new name makes me feel lighter on my feet. With a new name, anything is possible.

We all chanted one of Garvey's famous phrases together: Up, up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.

I'm not afraid...I'm awake to the way they think now...They have to have us in a box. They have to have us know they could shoot us. At any time.

Offers herself up whole, without conflicts, a woman who is many things, all at once.

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.