Clarissa Pinkola Estés Quotes
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Failure is a greater teacher than success
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.
Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.
To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter 'til they bloom, 'til you yourself burst into bloom.
We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.