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Quotes About Empowerment

With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.
~ Alan Brennert
Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
~ Alan Brennert
SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE! -on a stone in Kalaupapa
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
You empower what you fight. You withdraw power from what you release.
~ Alan Cohen
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
~ Alan Cohen
Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.
~ Alan Cohen
Quit making believe you don't know. You do know. Act on it.
~ Alan Cohen
Don't wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.
~ Alan Cohen
Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.
~ Alan Cohen
You should look within for your answers. Your life is not determined by the stars. It is determined by your state of mind and the choices you make. Regardless of how the stars are configured, you are in charge of your journey. Make healthy choices, and even if adversity comes, the Tao will show you how to use it for your benefit.
~ Alan Cohen
The Key to a healthy no is to remember the yes that the no is making space for.
~ Alan Cohen
Be at peace with your choices. They all serve you.
~ Alan Cohen
Be grateful, then, that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or fed up with what is not feeding you. Toleration of dysfunction only keeps it in force. Refuse to put up with what is not working, and you will find your way to your perfect place in the Great Design.
~ Alan Cohen
What happens to you happens from you.
~ Alan Cohen
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Alan Cohen
An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
~ Alan Cohen
If you simply love yourself, just as you are, right where you are, you will become an unstoppable force for healing and transformation.
~ Alan Cohen
Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
~ Alan Cohen
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.
~ Alan Cohen
It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
~ Alan Cohen
The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.
~ Alan Cohen
The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.
~ Alan Cohen
self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.
~ Alan Cohen
Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.
~ Alan Cohen