Powerless Quotes Quotes

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “It’s my job to make you happy, and your job to make me happy. And the best way to get you to work on my life is to act miserable. The more miserable I am, the more you will have to try to make me feel better.” Powerless people use various tactics, such as getting upset, withdrawing, nagging, ridiculing, pouting, crying, or getting angry, to pressure, manipulate, and punish one another into keeping this pact. However, this ongoing power play does nothing to make them happy and mitigate their anxiety in the long term. In fact, their anxiety only escalates by continually affirming that they are not actually powerful. Any sense of love and safety they feel by gaining or surrendering control is tenuous and fleeting. A relational bond built on mutual control simply cannot produce anything remotely like safety, love, or trust. It can only produce more fear, pain, distrust, punishment, and misery. And when taken to an extreme, it produces things like domestic violence.”
― Danny Silk, Keep Your Love On: Connection Communication And Boundaries

“Focus on the dimples you try to convince yourself you hate, even though I know you look for them every time I smile.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.”
― Carolyn Spring

“Powerless=lifeless.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You can tell a politician is lying when they claim they want fairness for all. They're part of and represent an unfair elite who will never share their wealth, power or opportunities with the underclass.”
― Stewart Stafford

“She is the single most destructive thing I have ever desired, and yet, it is the diamond on her finger that will destroy me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We are powerless and we take pleasure in being so.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Destiny of Liberty