Quotes About Empowerment

You may not be able to choose your reality. But you can change it.

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines.  Try something new, even if it scares you to death.  Learn because you love to learn, not because you're being tested.  Don't whine – there is always someone who's having a worse day than you are.  Be honest with yourself, and you'll never have anything to hide.   

I had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. I'm moving on to peace and happiness.

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one.

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

I had come to see a beautiful liberation in this new way of thinking—which was, ironically, not having to think for myself.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed." I look at her. "The first one sounds fair. The second one is fair. It's equal to give a printed test to two kids. But if one's blind and one's sighted, that's not true. You ought to give one a Braille test and one a printed test, which both cover the same material.

My sister likes to play the victim. We've had some pretty heated exchanges about that before. If you don't want to be seen as a stereotype, then the way I see it, don't be one. But to my sister, that means playing a white man's game, and being who they want her to be, instead of being unapologetically herself.

where all the differences in schooling and money and skin colour evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another.

Everyone comes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off.