Quotes About Empowerment

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....

Writing can be a source of strength -Wang Liang

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books...

Lo que yo puedo hacer no es sino insignificante. Si puedo hacerlo yo, cualquiera puede hacerlo.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

I fundamentally believe that if you empower people, you can move mountains. I fundamentally believe that if people are given a fair go, the world's a better place, people are happier individually and society progresses.

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it." "It's not through choice," Sam protested faintly. "Then you must choose to overcome. What happens if you keep giving in to a weak mind? You feed weakness. The result is an even weaker mind in the future. Instead, you must cultivate confidence!

The Indian Buddhist guru Shantideva had some wise words on this very subject," Lobsang said. He began to quote: "'When crows encounter a dying snake, / They will act as though they were eagles. / Likewise, if my self-confidence is weak, / I shall be injured by the slightest downfall.

Sometimes we need to be reminded what we're capable of.

Two main true causes of happiness: first, the wish to give happiness to others, which Buddhists define as love, and second, the wish to help free others from dissatisfaction or suffering, which we define as compassion.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

Enlightened beings cannot take away your suffering or give you happiness. If they could do this, wouldn't they have done so already?

And we can achieve so much more when we are positive. Confident.

we can't control everything around us in the world, but we can learn to control our own mind.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

The light within glows strongest in the darkness.

a life lived in fear is no life at all.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

It is said that each one of us has been a mother to every other living being, at some time in the past," he gazed at me with open-hearted benevolence. "Imagine, little Snow Lion, if we could all feel that connection, as if it were real?