Power Quotes

I am a wildflower disguised as a flame. It’ll be fun to watch you underestimate me.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

A relationship shouldn’t require you to walk on eggshells. But if you have to? boil the damn egg.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Stop giving anger power in your life.

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.