It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
