Quotes about Empowerment

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

And now I have a question for you. 'Do you also put clothes on the flowers you've picked and refuse to talk about their delicate parts?' I don't think there's a very big difference between people and nature, and since we're also a part of nature, why should we be ashamed of the way nature made us?

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!

Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating. When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength.

Forgiving people doesn't necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Haters want us to hate them because hate is incapacitating. When we hate we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength.

But as Rumi said, "Through love all pain will turn to medicine," not most pain, or for other people; and the pain and failures grew me, helped slowly restore me to the person I was born to be. I had to learn that life was not going to be filling if I tried to scrunch myself into somebody else's idea of me, i.e., someone sophisticated enough to prefer dark chocolate. I like milk chocolate, like M&M's: so sue me. But I no longer have to stuff myself to the gills.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Remember that you own what happened to you.