Quotes from Clarissa Pinkola Estes

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .