Quotes About Empowerment

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite.

Because inside there is a golden you who loves you and wants you to win and prevail and be happy. #reasonstostayalive

I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

Be brave. Be strong. Breathe, and keep going. You will thank yourself later.

The one truth she had, a truth she was now proud of and pleased with, a truth she had not only come to terms with but welcomed openly, with every fiery molecule of her being. A truth that she scribbles hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person tense. A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible. A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it.

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.

And even if you were a pawn - maybe we all are - then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

You are the observer of your mind, not its victim

She realised, in that moment, that she was capable of a lot more than she had known.

the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment'.

Learn to say to no things that get in the way of life. And to say yes to the things that help you live.

FIRE Every part of her That changed That got scraped off Because of schoolyard laughter Or the advice of grown-ups Long gone – And the pain of friends Already dead. She collected those bits off the floor. Like wood shavings. And she made them into fuel. Into fire. And burned. Bright enough to see for ever.

You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

C'è un solo cantuccio dell'universo che uno può esser certo di rendere migliore, e questo è il proprio io.

As Ayishat Akanbi put it, 'If you've decided your healing is dependent on other people acknowledging their faults you'll still be waiting in your grave.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to the wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

And it was then that Nora noticed the gun, a large rifle with a hefty brown handle, leaning against the wall at the far end of the room, under the coat hooks. The sight made her feel happy, somehow. Made her feel like her eleven-year-old self would have been proud. She was, it seemed, having an adventure.

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

Exista un singur colt in univers, pe care stii sigur ca il poti face mai bun - si acela esti tu insuti.