Empowering Quotes

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This one is self-explanatory. =) Add your favorite quote(s)...I will start with a couple I really enjoy.

"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt


"Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it."

~ Helen Keller


"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

~ Helen Keller ~

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
—Louisa May Alcott

"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."
—Susan B. Anthony

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
—Elizabeth Blackwell

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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
—Virginia Woolf

"We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home."
—Rosalyn Sussman

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
— Margaret Fuller

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"I won't let you die."
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard speaking of her inner voice


"When you resonate at this level you are in communion and you get into deep, deep...loving space with each other; you love each other."
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard speaking about the impact of communities of women and not growing alone


"To take the pathology out of frustration and depression and to really see it in the larger context of something seeking to emerge, something more wanting to be expressed is just really nurturing for all us of to hear." -- One of the two ladies in the series introductory

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"When life turns on you, whether that turning is real or imagined, clear your throat. Speak up. Tell someone who cares. Most of all, learn to tell yourself." -- Melody Beattie in Stop Being Mean to Yourself

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"I learned I could allow others to live with the inevitable and consequential results of their choices and destiny." - Melody Beattie

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"To those who hadn't wanted me, at least not the way we wanted to be wanted,
I had given my right to be here. Maybe they hadn't chosen me, but I could choose myself.
All of us who are here now have chosen to be here for this transformational time.
We are the chosen ones."
-- Melody Beattie

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[color=#FF0000]Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.[/color]

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I would rather have eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
~Robert Tizon

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of small
children; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived--this is success.
~Unknown~