Quotes About Empowerment

When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.

This is what people do—solve their own problems in others' lives.

Nothing in the years to come can do worse than she was ready to do to herself.

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that you, or who you think you are, have nothing to do with its original creation or its demise. It's sort of disempowering and utterly empowering at the same time, isn't it? All you can do is nurture it.

One has to wonder, do we really want people to grow, or do we just want to be in control of the moment?

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

We mend and renew the world by strengthening inside ourselves what we seek outside ourselves, and not by demanding it of others or trying to force it on others.

we have faith in Christ so we can have the faith of Christ.

Just do it better yourself and don't waste any time criticizing others or the past! This, in fact, purifies your own commitment and motivation.

Trusting in God is not a passive dependency, a handing over of responsibility: "Okay, God, you can do it." Faith in God is primarily an active virtue. Faith does not necessarily mean an expectation that God will intervene. Faith is an end in itself. Faith is an active empowering of the other to be everything he or she can be for you.

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

As Rilke put it, "When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Anne Wilson Schaef

At 53, she was through with the foolishness of men's genitals. In fact, it had been many years since she had cared what hairy things dangled between their pale, scrawny legs. She now considered the fact that she had ever cared a kind of temporary lunacy and was thankful that her madness had been short lived, not terribly virulent and ultimately cured by marriage as God intended.

Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?

Even to my mother, her hard-won autonomy must at times have resembled a cage. Still, it was a cage of her own design, different from and superior to the one my father and her parents, and Gloversville itself ,would have put her in, if she'd allowed them to.

The message is clear – those who do not feel in control of their lives are less successful, and less psychologically and physically healthy, than those who do feel in control.

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

Sweep away the clouds And let a dome of blue sky Give this sea a name!