Quotes About Empowerment

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

God's self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Miguel de Cervantes

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

sexuality, like any other aspect of life, can be made enjoyable if we are willing to take control of it, and cultivate it in the direction of greater complexity.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces.

Why are some people weakened by stress, while others gain strength from it? Basically the answer is simple: those who know how to transform a hopeless situation into a new flow activity that can be controlled will be able to enjoy themselves, and emerge stronger from the ordeal.

Those who try to make life better for everyone without having learned to control their own lives first usually end up making things worse all around.

Work not only transforms the environment by building bridges across rivers and cultivating barren plains; it also transforms the worker from an animal guided by instincts into a conscious, goal-directed, skillful person.

consciousness has developed the ability to override its genetic instructions and to set its own independent course of action.

I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom.

accepting limitations is liberating.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating. For

Instead of feeling oppressed by the necessity to work hard, they share the opinion of Giuliana B., a seventy-four-year-old lady: "I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom." Certainly

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They

The quality of experience of people who play with and transform the opportunities in their surroundings, as Joe did, is clearly more developed as well as more enjoyable than that of people who resign themselves to live within the constraints of the barren reality they feel they cannot alter.