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Life Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of…
- 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.
- I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
- When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable…
- Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
- 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 is…
- When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into…
- Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the…
- A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled…
- When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an…
- Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,…
- Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
- When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of…
- A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.
- There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision…
- 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…
- The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle