Quotes About Empowerment

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.

I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.

We want men to admire us for our courage, our characters, and our intellect, not just our beauty.

Music is the lubricant of the poor.

The boy who harnessed the wind

You will get to where you are going by remembering who you are…

No real teacher can doubt that his task is to assist his pupil to fulfill human nature against all the deforming forces of convention and prejudice.

Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

He felt poor, as well, although he didn't consider himself poor. He considered himself free.

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it.

You need to stop thinking "I can never ever have another drink", and start thinking how wonderful it will be when you can stop poisoning yourself.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE! These bodies of ours are the most

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you.

For years some of us have focused our attention (and worries) on our adult children. We've not only taken on the role of director in the drama of their lives, but the roles of producer, stage manager, dresser, caterer, financier, and scriptwriter as well. We've done countless things for them that they are more than capable of doing for themselves.

We can't control the way others treat us, but this book will show you how to tell them, in a positive and productive manner, how you feel about being treated poorly. Even more important, it will bring you closer to the God who wants nothing more than to hold you in the palm of His hand and love and protect you regardless of your circumstances.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse someone's actions, but it releases us from the pain they caused.

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

We don't owe nobody nuthin', and we don't make no deals, we're swingin' chicks on motors, and we're man-eaters on wheels!

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.