"Asking the proper question is the central act……" — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!"

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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107 Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Clarissa Pinkola Estes has 107 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in…
A runner is real when she takes the first step.
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes…
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is…
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow…
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and…
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in…
The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This…
A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because…
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the…
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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