Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.

I think everyone can make a difference, I think even smiling at someone in the morning can make her day.

Even if I can change the life of one child, I shall feel blessed.

However you can affect somebody positively is what you should aspire to do.

I just try to go out and help others, to do whatever I can to make a difference.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.

It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.

The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.

It doesn't all have to be about giving money. Sometimes it's a smile that changes the life of one little kid.

You want to help people and make the world a better place in whatever way you can. I've tried to share the things I've learned, and for me it really is all about being a role model.

Ultimately it's the simple things that make a difference.

I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!

I just want to make people happy and make a difference in people's lives.

I just do what I can do to be one of the people who make a difference.

I made a pact with myself when I was younger that if were to ever grow up to be someone, I would be someone who would make a difference, instead of being just another person on the planet who doesn't look into anything.

All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.

Make a difference today for someone who's fighting for their tomorrow.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Every little deed counts.