“Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.”
“Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.”
“Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts; this is why planning your thought is so important.”
“Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.”
“Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.”
“Banning books is just another form of bullying. It s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.”
“There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it s impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!”
“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”
“Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents and young children, but in the best situations, there should be no power struggles by the time those children have become adults - just deep connection, trust, and respect between people who sincerely care about each other. In disruptive families, children are taught to remain one-up or one-down into adulthood. And this produces immature adults who either seek to dominate others (one-up) or who allow themselves to be dominated (one-down) in their relationships - one powerful and one needy, one enabling and one addicted, one decisive and one confused. In relationships with these people, manipulation abounds. Especially when they start to feel out of control.”
“There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying. So I am glad the pain came because without it I would not have discovered my strength.”
“Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking about a car, then power would be what was under the hood. Exercising that power would mean taking the car out for a spin. Having the authority to do so might involve a driver’s license, possessing the keys, or having the title and registration.”
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.”
“Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.”
“For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the natives, and so in every crisis he has got to do what the natives expect of him... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.”
“When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated”
“Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!”
“I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.”