Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths And Stories Of The Wild Woman Archetype Quotes
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Failure is a greater teacher than success
Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.
Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.
To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.