Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

“It is said that all that you are seeking is also seeking you, that if you lie still, sit still, it will find you.  It has been waiting for you for a long time.  Once it is here, don’t move away.  Rest.  See what happens next”

 

“We are reminded again and again of the power of this great feeling.  There is drawing power in tears, and within the tear itself, powerful images that guide us.  Tears not only represent feeling but are also lenses through which we gain an alternative vision, another point of view”

 

“We have all made the mistake of thinking someone else can be our healer, our thriller, our filling.  It takes a long time to find it is not so, mostly because we project the wound outside instead of ministering to it within”

 

“You can dent the soul and bend it.  You can hurt it and scar it.  You can leave the marks of illness upon it, and the scorch marks of fear.  But it does not die, for it is protected by La Loba in the underworld.  She is both the finder and the incubator of the bones”

General Quotes

‘But these overwhelming feelings do not imply in any way that you are weak, dependent, or underserving.  In spite of the intensity of your feelings, you are still the competent, responsible person you thought you were.  Your break up, with all of its emotional excess, has not diminished you.  In fact, being able to feel so deeply is a testament to your strength and tenacity. Only by giving yourself over to your feelings can you find your way out of them’

(Susan Anderson)

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

(Calvin Coolidge)

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When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But … that is not what great ships are built for. (Anon)

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 One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”
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“You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
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People go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the extent of the ocean, the course of the stars and forget to wonder at themselves.
 
St. Augustine
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