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In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call "maximising utility". The ultimate objective of mankind is economic growth, and that is maximized only through raw, and lightly regulated, competition. If the rewards of this system are spread unevenly, that is a necessary price. Others on the planet are to be regarded as either customers, competitors or factors of production. Effects upon the planet itself are mere "externalities" to the model, with no reckoning of the cost - at least for now. Nowhere in this analysis appears factors such as human cooperation, love, trust, compassion or hatred, curiosity or beauty. Nowhere appears the concept of meaning. What cannot be measured is ignored. But the trouble is that once our basic needs for shelter and food have been met, these factors may be the most important of all.
— Carne Ross, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.
— Francis Spufford, Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
— Eugene Linden, The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Me et
But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?
— Gary Taubes
In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by thousands of people (tens of thousands in the case of the World Social Forum), that were exclusively devoted to popular education about the inner workings of global finance and trade. No topic was too arcane: the science of genetically modified foods, trade-related intellectual property rights, the fine print of bilateral trade deals, the patenting of seeds, the truth about certain carbon sinks. I sensed in these rooms a hunger for knowledge that I have never witnessed in any university class. It was as if people understood, all at once, that gathering this knowledge was crucial to the survival not just of democracy but of the planet. Yes, this was complicated, but we embraced that complexity because we were finally looking at systems, not just symbols.
— Naomi Klein, No Logo
Now, quite apart from the fact that, from the point of view of the Earther, socialism suffers the devastating liability of only exhibiting internal contradictions when you are trying to use it as an adjunct to your own stupidity (unlike capitalism, which again, from the point of view of the Earther, happily has them built in from the start), it is the case that because Free Enterprise got there first and set up the house rules, it will always stay at least one kick ahead of its rivals.
— Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods
My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...
— Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
Marxist writers are generally either indifferent or mildly hostile to the anti-capitalist movement, which they see as no good substitute for the great projects of communism and social democracy. Now, in one sense this is quite justified[…] However, there seems very little reason to believe that a return to the tactics of the twentieth-century labour movement is going to achieve anything in the future… [W]hat is wrong with commodification is not commodification per se… Marxist tradition goes much further than simply recommending that the excessive power of capital be challenged and curbed. Historically, this tradition tends to assert that such a challenge can only be made by virtue of a direct challenge to the existing relations of production, conceived of as the basis for a social totality, and, crucially, that it can only be made by the proletariat, politically mobilizes as a ‘Class of Itself’. In concrete terms, this means that only the labour movement, being organized and mobilized on the basis of its class identity and demanding the socialization of the means of production, can mount such a challenge… This is where I, and the anti-capitalist movement, part company with classical Marxism… [A]nti-capitalist movement is characterized by a certain pluralism, an unwillingness to impose any one model of social organization, and a refusal of neoliberal hegemony not on the basis of a single class identity or even a single universal human identity, but precisely n the basis of a defence of such pluralism against neoliberalism’s tyrannical monomania.
— Jeremy Gilbert, Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics
The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly.And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda—the advertising industry.
— Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
— B.R. Ambedkar
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
— Leon Trotsky
Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.
— Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.
— Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for nothing — or rather, they died for work. But work is nothing to die for.
— Bob Black, The Abolition of Work & Other Essays
Wake up America!The insurance companies took over health care!Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing!Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street!Wake up America!They want your Social Security!Wake up America!Multinational corporations took over our trade policies!Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil!WAKE UP AMERICA!
— Dennis Kucinich
Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation of one's ego is a natural right sanctioned by natural law. A person is free on the inside because he can call his soul his own; he is free on the outside because he can call property his own. Internal freedom is based upon the fact that "I am"; external freedom is based on the fact that "I have." But just as the excesses of flesh produce lust, for lust is sex in the wrong place, so there can be a deordination of the desire for property until it becomes greed, avarice, and capitalistic aggression.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.
— Michelle Templet
Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism offers the great deception that thanks to its machinations everyone will be richer in the future, thus justifying gross inequality and humiliation today.
— Carne Ross, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.
— Leslie T. Chang
I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.
— Brian Eno
I read recently that 60% of all drugs on the black-market had been put there by the police. No sooner are drugs seized, it seems, than they are recycled onto the streets by the arresting officers! I know our Leader, Mrs Thatcher, is in favour of private enterprise, but this is the free market gone mad!...Yours for the Market Economy Within Reasonable Limits!
— William Donaldson
This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with both hands, and make the most of it'. A month later in New York I was telling this story to Mr John Walter, minority owner of The Times. He asked me why I had not written the Capone interview for the paper. I explained that when I had come to put my notes together, I saw that most of what Capone had said was in essence identical with what was being said in the leading articles of The Times itself, and I doubted whether the paper would be best pleased to find itself seeing eye to eye with the most notorious gangster in Chicago.
— Claud Cockburn
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
— James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
… we have bad dreamsbecause our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.
— Dan Poblocki, The Stone Child
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
— Terence McKenna
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
It's not that difficult you see, To be all that you can be;For the true secret to success, Is simply this...ALWAYS do your best.
— Danielle Pierre
I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World dancer. Because when the Fool followed her own path and trusted herself, she found herself in the World. And by the time she did, she was so high on the music-so enraptured by the dancing, so lost in the beauty, so in tune with herself, and so filled with magic-she didn't even realize she's arrived at her destination.
— Sasha Graham, 365 Tarot Spreads: Revealing the Magic in Each Day
The excellence and efficiency of any nation or of our global community at large is driven by the collective empowerment of individuals. Gross consumer waste, haphazard bureaucratic spending, and the careless consumption of natural resources are all reflections of the mismanagement of personal power common within the average citizen.
— Scott Edmund Miller
Tools of empowerment - heartset and mindset.
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here?: The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power
In every moment, you are blessed with the empowerment of choice. Choose wisely, it is an investment into your quality of life.
— Mishi McCoy
If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
I know that no one is my judge. I live according to my own conscience and value discernments which are governed by Holy Spirit. I know my intentions and I walk my path with a clear conscience. Be careful not to make assumptions. I don't even allow my left hand to know what my right hand does. What makes you think I should explain my every unction and action to you?
— Mishi McCoy
In the space between waves, we have the choice. To jump, to dive, to ride, to play. To face what's coming without running away.
— Patty Chang Anker, Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave
It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Empowerment is the most effective and sustainable way to improve the lives of others.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Adorn ritual; decorate shrines of love, hope, tranquility. Be significant. Arrive deliberate. . .
— Cathleen Margaret, Our Name Is Memory
The greatest gift you can give yourself is kindness.
— Tranula Holden, So they call you a victim?
We need your children to bring light to our world.Your children can be the hope of our world and a force for change—if they are empowered and have an open heart. But only an empowered parent can give that to them.Heal your heart. Empower yourself.
— Eileen Anglin
We can only become a better person if we have the inclination and the resolve, only if we accept that life is a learning curve and all experiences add something to our personality.
— Balroop Singh, Allow Yourself To Be A Better Person
She made the mistake of raising me to have a voice
— Melissa Grushetski
I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
These are burning times. And they call for Burning Women. Women embodied in their passion. Woman feeling in their bodies. Creative women. Courageous women. Women who have learned to run on a different power source to the world which is falling into flames around her. She has already disentangled herself from the wreckage of the patriarchal culture, so she will not be dazed, confused and disorientated by the systemic changes happening around her. Centred within herself, receptive to the Earth beyond her, she knows how to cultivate from the ashes, she knows how to find the embers to fuel the new fire.Burning Women arise.Our time is now.Our time has come.
— Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
We mothers have a wonderfully precious and truly powerful role to play in the future self-images of our daughters. The truth is, the most effective way to inculcate in our daughters a fighting chance at life-long self-love and empowerment is not in the books we read to them, or the workshops we send them to, or the media we do or do not expose them to, or even the things we tell them, rather it is in the reflection of self-love and empowerment they see in us, their mothers. The model of our own empowerment gives our daughters permission to be powerful. Of course, culture and societal norms mold our view of ourselves as women, but the beliefs and behaviors of our mothers are far more influential.
— Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with
— Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
Stop making shame a virtue.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go
—  but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.
Only you can decide what you become.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
THE FEAR OF ITThey say that resistanceto something inevitable makes it seem worse than it is. Maybe the trickis to give in,try to increase the worry, bend like a tree in the storm, give pain its due,find the center of it and look at it plainly, turn it carefullyin the palm of your hand,and realize it can own only so much of you,unless you give it more.It is a balloonthat can get only so big.Anything more is just the fear of it.
— Kat Lehmann, Moon Full of Moons
In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.
— Sil Lai Abrams, Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity
I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.
— Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie, Long Way Down
What kind of footsteps will you leave for those who follow you?
— Kathy Bee, Footsteps My Journey: The true story about the beloved poem Footprints In The Sand.
I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
— Emma Watson
It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.
— Harshada Pathare
Empower the future with love. Disgraceful men don't stand a place in the kingdom of god.
— Suchet chaturvedi
I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
My only struggle has been trying to empower people who falsely believe that they are already empowered.
— Paul Bamikole
Disability is not what we see or appear, it is all about not doing what one really wanted to do...
— Seal the Smile
Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!
— Christine Willson, The Screen Saver
Sometimes we need to examine who we are,what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.
— Christine Willson, The Screen Saver
Understand indigenous healing will also heal other nations and peoples. We've all been living on broken ugly systems built on genocide and slavery. Strengthening and empowering others, in whatever capacity, also helps the self.
— Red Haircrow
Dare to be bold and brave, my BEAUTIFUL QUEENS. Dare to believe that you can. Dare to make your dreams a reality. Dare to get out of your comfort zone and soar! Dare to live your life limitlessly. Dare to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. DARE.
— Stephanie Lahart
I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Self-Worth. Self-Love. Self-Esteem. Self-Motivation. Self-Confidence. All of these things equal Self-Empowerment. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does!
— Stephanie Lahart
Letting go of resentment or hurt allows you to take your power back. Forgiveness isn't about saying what happened to you is okay. It is about living your life in the present and letting go of the past.
— Renee D. Cefalu
I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively, fiercely. I was a brave girl. I was a fit fox.I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Your life is a piece of clay
—  don't let anyone else mold it for you.
I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything
— Kazeem Olalekan, The Doctrine of Universal Truths
If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
If one spends too much time running / `round in the labyrinthine archives / of the mind, one finds a Lady Past / who, alas, can never be changed, /rather, relived–empowered—so-muchso / that she grabs choking-hold / of Today, blues her face, & robs / you of your pr(essence).
— Evy Zen, Esoterra
All mothers breed dead children.
— Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives
Ladies, how do you expect a man to love you, if he hasn't first learnt how to love himself?
— Nikki Rowe
Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!
— Erin Fall Haskell
Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... and suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to make it through life without being ridiculed. Suddenly, he was a part of something. Something important. Something powerful. Something greater than he could ever be on his own. It was amazing how empowering the group could be.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power
— Damond Jiniya
I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
If you want to be great at something, be great at being your most treasured self. Life is about connection, and how can you give apart of yourself to someone; too hold onto, if you don't know which part they want most?
— Nikki Rowe
The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.
— Nikki Rowe
Loss gives us a chance for an upgrade.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.
— Walter Dean Myers
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
— Naomi Klein, No Logo
Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
It takes a little crazy to make a difference.
— Dafna Michaelson Jenet
That's not in my yard.
— Katrina Katen, The Ownership Yard: Where You Will Find True & Lasting Happiness
The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.
— Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Since knowledge is equal to money - it is wise not to use it all at once, but to apply the rules of economics and spread it respectively
— Manos
Life's adversity strengthens us to embrace - life’s true purpose and destiny.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
May you can continue unhindered, by inviting immense clarity, prosperity and purpose - into your life.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Life is unfolding by each step you take - but, it is fulfilled by every choice you make.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Honor your joy today, whilst it replenishes and strengthens you - in the company of your Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Doing things for others is something that money cannot buy it is a priceless act which gives an abundance of worthy feelings for both involved, to empower others and to know that others care is an key part of listening, the stoppage of wars, the foundations of a hopeful future for everybody.
— Paul Isaacs
Your inner joy will journey alongside you - supported within the company of your Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Through joy, the Soul finds its greatest - physical expression.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Your Soul helps you fulfill all you wish to achieve & shares - all you are destined to know.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Your joy ensures your life experiences, always serve to support you - along life’s chosen path.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Christmas, just like life itself - will become all that you choose or want it, to be.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious - even in the midst of defeat.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Let the Soulful will of all that exists within - gift you the knowledge to fulfill all that is, without.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Soulfully encouraged on Christmas day, to journey freely - toward your chosen goals.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
This Christmas may you courageously venture - toward each new and unfolding horizon.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
May the pathways that are Soulfully gifted to you, never be ignored — but, always embraced.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Allow Christmas day to blossom in the bosom of your own inner joy & happiness.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
In the midst of embracing life secrets, you will remain purposely guided - throughout your life.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
The Soul's knowledge is lovingly gifted, just as you are presented with gifts - from those you love.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Through your Soul’s partnership the answers to all of life’s questions - mysteriously come tumbling forth.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
I have written this book to encourage women to dream big, forge a path through the obstacles, and achieve their full potential. I am hoping that each woman will set her own goals and reach for them with gusto. And I am hoping that each man will do his part to support women in the workplace and in the home, also with gusto. As we start using the talents of the entire population, our institutions will be more productive, our homes will be happier, and the children growing up in those homes will no longer be held back by narrow stereotypes.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Uncover your life’s purpose, not just armed with your faith — but, in the company of your Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
The Soul does not just share the answers you seek — but, how all you want can be achieved.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Allow Soul's unique knowledge to filter freely from your Soul - through to your Mind.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Trust all you wish to achieve, in the aftermath of Christmas will harmoniously begin to unfold.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Look toward the Soul's guidance, which is not just ready to be shared - but, awaits you acceptance.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Honor the freedom to celebrate Christmas, not alone - but, in the company of all those you love, too.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Christmas, so joyfully celebrated within our hearts and within the hearts of countless others.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Today, may you be filled with an immense sense of inner peace, unity, joy & happiness.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Let the life of one so dear be celebrated and embraced - with each passing day.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Amidst such Soulful exploration each passage - is given new meaning, wisdom & insight.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Support the free spirited nature of your Soul & the Soulful energy that exists within - all living Souls.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
Use this day to honor the memory of Christmas — whilst it remains celebrated in your life.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Let each Soulful insight, encourage you to - joyfully partake of Christmas in your own way.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Amidst such Soulful freedom, Christmas is never hindered - but, freely embraced.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Christmas is supported through celebration, joyfully passed on - from generation to generation.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Celebrate Christmas in your own way, among those you love and even if - you are alone.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
As you embrace Christmas, you embrace the magnitude of your life’s journey & purpose.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Let the essence of Christmas blossom within - as the countdown to Christmas begins.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Celebrate the life you have been gifted thus far, supporting the arrival of Christmas day.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Never allow yourself to become despondent or weary, as you venture along life’s chosen path.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
To entertain your worries and woes, is to invite the inevitability of defeat - into your life.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
As Christmas approaches remember all that you have experienced - has not been in vain.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
All we endured throughout the year was - but an integral part of our life’s learning & evolution.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Whether you are with those you love or alone, you are contributing to Christmas, in your own way.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
As we celebrate the evolution of the life of one so special, we embrace the meaning of life, itself.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
As we fulfill our life's journey & path - let us remain trusting of the inner guidance of our Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
In the company of the Soul's inner guidance, let us celebrate all we are destined to know.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
The Soul's knowledge, which pertains only to you - should be acted upon today and put to good use.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
The Soul's secrets from within - help unlock the secrets of all that exists, without.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
May this Soulful understanding of Christmas invite - the peace, harmony and serenity you deserve.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
By Soulfully understanding all you are - there is no need to fret about what to do next, or when.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Just being nice is not a winning strategy. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others. This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls "relentlessly pleasant." This method requires smiling frequently, expressing appreciation and concern, invoking common interests, emphasizing larger goals, and approaching the negotiation as solving a problem as opposed to taking a critical stance. Most negotiations involve drawn-out, successive moves, so women need to stay focused... and smile.No wonder women don't negotiate as much as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. So what should we do? Should we play by the rules that others created? Should we figure out a way to put on a friendly expression while not being too nice, displaying the right levels of loyalty and using "we" language? I understand the paradox of advising women to change the world by adhering to biased rules and expectations. I know it is not a perfect answer but a means to a desirable end. It is also true, as any good negotiator knows, that having a better understanding of the other side leads to a superior outcome. So at the very least, women can enter these negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
— Sheryl Sandberg
You are the promise for a more equal world. So my hope for everyone here is that after you walk across this stage, after you get your diploma, after you go out tonight and celebrate hard - you then will lean way in to your career. You will find something you love doing and you will do it with gusto. Find the right career for you and go all the way to the top.As you walk off this stage today, you start your adult life. Start out by aiming high. Try - and try hard.Like everyone here, I have great hopes for the members of this graduating class. I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it. Women all around the world are counting on you.So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I know that my success comes from hard work, help from others, and being at the right place at the right time. I feel a deep and enduring sense of gratitude to those who have given me opportunities and support. I recognize the sheer luck of being born into my family in the United States rather than one of the many places in the world where women are denied basic rights. I believe that all of us - men and women alike - should acknowledge good fortune and thank the people who have helped us. No one accomplishes anything all alone.But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children — yet, willing to see me as their Father.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration
Many have argued with me that ambition is not the problem. Women are not less ambitious than men, they insist, but more enlightened with different and more meaningful goals. I do not dismiss or dispute this argument. There is far more to life than climbing a career ladder, including raising children, seeking personal fulfillment, contributing to society, and improving the lives of others. And there are many people who are deeply committed to their jobs but do not - and should not have to - aspire to run their organizations. Leadership roles are not the only way to have profound impact.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: Soulfully Inspiring You Whilst Mourning Loss and Working Through Grief
Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
Your empowerment remains Soulfully supported from within.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
Embrace the true essence of Christmas - by embracing the gift and essence of life, itself.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
Even in the midst of life’s adversity, struggle or strife; Love’s enduring presence remains steadfast.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
Be encouraged to Soulfully affirm all that is duty bound to unfold in your life.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get throughout our lives - the messages that say it's wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own expectations of what we can achieve. We continue to do the majority of the housework and child care. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet. Compared to our male colleagues, fewer of us aspire to senior positions. This is not a list of things other women have done. I have made every mistake on this list. At times, I still do.My argument is that getting rid of these internal barriers is critical to gaining power. Others have argued that women can get to the top only when the institutional barriers are gone. This is the ultimate chicken-and-egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles. We will march into our bosses' offices and demand what we need, including pregnancy parking. Or better yet, we'll become bosses and make sure all women have what they need. The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right. So rather than engage in philosophical arguments over which comes first, let's agree to wage battles on both fronts. They are equally important. I am encouraging women to address the chicken, but I fully support those who are focusing on the egg.Internal obstacles are rarely discussed and often underplayed. Throughout my life, I was told over and over about inequalities in the workplace and how hard it would be to have a career and a family. I rarely heard anything, however, about the ways I might hold myself back. These internal obstacles deserve a lot more attention, in part because they are under our own control. We can dismantle the hurdles in ourselves today. We can start this very moment.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If we want a world with greater equality, we need to acknowledge that women are less likely to keep their hands up. We need institutions and individuals to notice and correct for this behavior by encouraging, promoting, and championing more women. And women have to learn to keep their hands up, because when they lower them, even managers with the best intentions might not notice.
— Sheryl Sandberg
May the mysteries that confound you, be unraveled.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Inspiration: Soulfully Inspiring You to Attain Your Goals by Utilizing the Power of Inspiration
A new voyage of discovery - leading you, toward your very own brand of hidden treasure.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
In November 2011, San Francisco magazine ran a story on female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and illustrated it by superimposing the featured women's heads onto male bodies. The only body type they could imagine for successful entrepreneurship was wearing a tie or a hoodie. Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
— Sheryl Sandberg
It is only upon life’s new journey & pathway that your greatest learning - will be experienced.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!
As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate — not just within your heart & mind, but Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!