Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us. And then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right. To fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

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"Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Hope

"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Personal Growth

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Courage

""Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Growth

"A Prayer: Refuse to fall down / If you cannot refuse to fall down / refuse to stay down / If you cannot refuse to stay down / lift your heart toward heaven / and like a hungry beggar / ask that it be filled. / You may be pushed down. / You may be kept from rising. / But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. / It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Faith

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