Will Estes Quotes
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that's part of the artistry.
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul.
When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.
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 . . . .
I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.
You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.
People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .
He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.
