I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William ShakespeareTags: happiness love empowerment freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands courtship bachelorhood singles wooing
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
Jane AustenTags: strength empowerment judgment determination weakness self-determination independence persuasion interference
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.
Hélder CâmaraTags: empowerment humanity identity justice language diversity culture multiculturalism
Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
Tags: life perception empowerment attitude
The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.
Rich DeVosTags: empowerment faith attitude
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte BrontëTags: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
Cormac McCarthyTags: fear life empowerment fate ignorance self-determination secrets superstition order
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Elizabeth ITags: empowerment women freedom marriage self-determination self-reliance independence bachelorhood singles matrimony dignity queens spinsters preference british-monarchy british-royal-family
You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.
Golda PoretskyTags: empowerment empowering self-help self-knowledge self-love
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
Jane AustenTags: strength empowerment judgment weakness self-determination independence persuasion interference
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