Quotes About Empowerment

That's really important in trying to understand shibui. It sounds simple, like a cliché, really; but it's true: a woman is most beautiful when she is herself.

philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!

Some guys actually like it when a woman's brain is as full as her bra.

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Resolve never to criticize or downgrade yourself, but instead rejoice that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

help us apply God's teaching, I've put these four biblical elements into an easy-to-remember formula using the word W-I-F-E. Warm up his life with your love Improve his life as a helper Follow his leadership with a willing heart Esteem him highly with utmost respect

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit's friendship and Hannah's gentle affection.

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

at some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be

Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.

creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine.