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.

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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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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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"The best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

- Wallace Wattles

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"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."

- Mother Teresa

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