Quotes about Self-empowerment

You have to be someone.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

It is to be remembered that by good deeds or words you encourage yourself, who always have need to witness or hear them.

Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.