Quotes About Empowerment

Stepping into speakership means bringing the very best of you, the real you, to your messages.

In elevating others, you elevate yourself.

As a speaker you need to identify your greatest weakness and use it to enhance your audience's understanding of who you are.

Speakership is the ultimate personal development vehicle, and the confidence and focus that comes from being the master of your internal state is possibly its greatest reward.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

Death to the pale-penised man-monster! Death to the pendulous-breasted harridan!

Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.

Words, just sometimes, can set you free.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore.

And yet, everything was different. And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.

It looks like she is standing still but actually she is walking. She is breaking out of the chains of the past. Of slavery. Of civil war. And she is heading towards liberty. But she is caught for ever in that moment of stopped time. Look, can you see? Stop looking at the torch and look at her feet. She's moving, but not moving. Heading towards a better future, but not quite there yet.

There is no point spending an entire life trying to win the love you didn't feel when you needed it. You sometimes just have to let go of an old story and start your own. Give yourself some love. You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

Don't let anyone or anything make you feel you aren't enough.

No is a good word. It keeps you sane. In an age of overload, no is really yes. It is yes to having the space you need to live.

Don't say yes to things you wish you had the confidence to say no to.

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.