"Ours is not the task of fixing the……" — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this_world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good."
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107 Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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