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To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 27
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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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I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
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So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
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Stories are medicine. They have such power they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
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God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
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If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.
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Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
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Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
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If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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