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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Real change happens a step at a time.

I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.

We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it's through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Make a difference no matter what role you play

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.

You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.