"It's not the failure that holds us back……" — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate."
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107 Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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A runner is real when she takes the first step.
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The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow…
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and…
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To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in…
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The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This…
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A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because…
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Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
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The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the…
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