#power

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #bed #before #being #clock

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #empowerment #inspirational #letting-go #life

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#power #women #women