"When a creature is exposed to violence, it……" — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead."
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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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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their…
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Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.
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