#empowerment

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."

"People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop."

"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."

"I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor my empowered heart."

"In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with."

"If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way."

"Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily."

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch."

"Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need"

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

"In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves."

"Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!"

"Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it."

"The purpose of empowerment is to urge you towards freedom, to help each of you to break free of all limitations. It is that freedom that will give you eternal happiness and finally connect you with the unconditional realization of TRUTH."