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Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be c...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubado...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage coul...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others h...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is th...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religiou...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. The...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless f...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that caus...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with y...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our e...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, car...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt an...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instinct...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an a...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge,...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up i...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose jus...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES The real miracle of individuation and reclamation of the Wild Woman is that we all begin the process...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or tha...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep som...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselv...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carr...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than S...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES When war is "over," it is never simply "over." The first war takes place during wartime. The second ...
CLARRISA PINKOLA ESTES You are mistaken. The Nazis and their helpers were not from Germany. Gyava nepnek nics hazaja. Cowar...
CLARRISA PINKOLA ESTES Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a bo...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS (Young girls) are taught to not see, and instead to "make pretty" all manner of grotesqueries whethe...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS We dismantle the predator by countering its diatribes with our own nurturant truths. Predator: You n...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there th...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in it...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carr...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is f...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS How does Wild Woman affect women? With her as ally, as leader, model, teacher, we see, not through t...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS This explosive psychological 'sneaking' occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS There is probably no better or more reliable measure of whether a woman has spent time in ugly duckl...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things op...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looki...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS ...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Failure is a greater teacher than success
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, car...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
CLARISSA One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.
RON ESTES I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an...
WILL ESTES I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is wha...
WILL ESTES I definitely felt like I could win it, but of course a lot of that had to do with what Stuart was go...
BOB ESTES That's probably the best shot I hit all day. All I was trying to do was get it anywhere on the green...
BOB ESTES They'll be a lot more people on the streets. People will feel more comfortable walking around.
BOB ESTES It's just so spread out, the rounds were really long, and that's the downside of it.
BOB ESTES Everybody who lives here loves Cocoa Beach, but I think they'd like to see downtown a little nicer.
BOB ESTES Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get ...
RON ESTES My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it.
WILL ESTES We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real ...
RON ESTES It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really clos...
WILL ESTES Defense is all about hard work. Defense is something we stress. We want to make them work hard to ge...
KEVIN ESTES What the MRI showed was to me the best-case scenario. We're dealing with muscle, not ligament. That ...
SHAWN ESTES My grandfather didn't have a windshield on that first truck.
ROB ESTES That's quite a feat. That's a good team, a well-coached team. It shows we played a little better, to...
KEVIN ESTES Several factors are going to go into that. Obviously, length of time on the job, how much money they...
BILLY ESTES One of our tellers had received a call over the weekend. So, we don't know if there was any connecti...
BILLY ESTES As they say, with great power comes great responsibility.”
“Are you screwin’ with me, man...
DAVID ESTES We estimate that between 40,000 and 45,000 sea otters have died since 1990 from killer whale predati...
JIM ESTES My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expe...
DAVID ESTES I felt like we never let it get away from us. We can't take anything for granted. We've got a target...
KEVIN ESTES The Itanium Solutions Alliance is useful for us. If you're a company like ours, you try to stake out...
GREG ESTES The Itanium Solutions Alliance is useful for us. If you're a company like ours, you try to stake out...
GREG ESTES The Itanium Solutions Alliance is useful for us. If you're a company like ours, you try to stake out...
GREG ESTES Defensively this was a very good team we were playing against. We let in three late ones, but I thin...
JAMIE ESTES We need to be a little more aggressive in the central midfield and we need to be faster, which is no...
JAMIE ESTES He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.
DAVID ESTES For a district like EPISD, looking around at the urban school districts in the state should give the...
NOLAN ESTES He's the quirkiest kid you'll ever meet.
PHIL ESTES A stop light not a caution light but a traffic light where they have to stop and let people turn, go...
SABRINA ESTES There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and...
CLARISSA WARD What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
CLARISSA GRAVES We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough asses...
CLARISSA WARD 2 to 1

2 hearts 1 beat
2 lips will meet
2 birds 1 stone
2 never b alone CLARISSA CLEMENS It was disturbing because it was my professor and I know he has a life outside of USI, but it was we...
CLARISSA RIETVELD The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimida...
CLARISSA WARD Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so ...
CLARISSA WARD It's another way to keep in touch with friends from other schools and I don't have to run up such a ...
CLARISSA RIETVELD The current ordinance only addresses the hours of sale. The city is hoping for the cooperation of th...
CLARISSA HOWARD Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the green...
KENNETH W. ESTES The detailer was the one to offer putting him on the ship with me. Needless to say, I was pleasantly...
GREGORY R. ESTES I'm just very thankful that I've had this opportunity to serve along my son. I realize it's a once i...
GREGORY R. ESTES One great advantage (of deploying together) was being able to help mentor him and see his accomplish...
GREGORY R. ESTES It's great being stationed together. It makes it nice when I'm underway and away from home, yet I st...
GREGORY R. ESTES