Quotes About Empowerment

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

Freedom is a huge risk, and while most people aspire to attain it, they don't know how to put it to use.

but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

Tienes la vida ante ti; tú eres su único dueño. Se digno de todo lo que yo he amado.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

plucky little Britannia throwing off Roman rule and beating the barbarians into the bargain

You don't have the power to control the people, situations, and circumstances around you. You only have the power to control yourself.

Het is altijd mijn overtuiging geweest dat je iemand brood moet geven als hij honger heeft, maar hem zelf voor het beleg moet laten zorgen. Dat stimuleert het initiatief.

For saddies, encouragement is revelatory. Rather than making their resolve stronger, it will implant a resolve where none had been. "Because this person believes in me," the saddie thinks, "and this person is not me, they may have a point.

Having escaped restraint, they were, like some people we know of, afraid of their freedom, did not know what to do with it, and seemed glad to get back into the old familiar bondage.

May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;

Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other's presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.

May you come to recognize That though your body is imprisoned, No one can imprison your mind. May all the time you have on your hands Bring you into new friendship with your mind

The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.

Real presence is the ideal of all true individuation. When we yield to helplessness, we strengthen the hand of those who would destroy.

One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.

A soul under the power of conviction from the law is pressed to fight against sin, but hath no strength for the combat.

In brief, that which the whole parable teach-eth is, that wherever there is a ministry in the church that Christ owneth or regardeth, as used and employed by him, there persons are furnished with spiritual gifts from Christ by the Spirit, enabling them unto the discharge of that ministry; and where there are no such spiritual gifts dispensed by him, there is no ministry that he either accepteth or approveth.

Jika para pemberi suara tidak tahu alat terpenting yang dimanfaatkan pemimpin mereka, bisakah bangsa tersebut mengklaim sebagai bangsa yang demokratis?

The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed. Edna O'Brien

I'd be more impressed with a woman's mind if it jiggled pleasantly when she walked.

Shakespeare has no heroes. He only has heroines.

After she'd blocked the peephole, she went to her laptop and did a Google search on peephole intrusions—and learned that women were not only watched, but had actually been filmed through the peephole as they undressed inside their locked rooms. Yet another reason, Letty thought, that all women should be issued guns at birth.