Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.