#w

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

Stand in your own two shoes. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#empowering-beliefs #empowerment #responsibility #self-responsibility #self-belief

I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#self-empowerment

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #the-fault-in-our-stars

Okay. ↗

— John Green

#awww #im-gonna-cry #the-fault-in-our-stars

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars

Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind, ↗

— John Green

#blind #isaac #the-fault-in-our-stars #the-fault-in-our-stars

Hazel: "God, you're the best," Augustus: "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars #the-fault-in-our-stars

I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #ilona-andrews