Wild and Wise Words to Inspire

We like to inspire and to be inspired…here are some of the quotes that move us and reflect the spirit of Wild Women!

‎”Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species.” – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in Women Who Run With The Wolves

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver

‎”The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

‎”If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go…” -T Tempest Williams

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“The most important things in life aren’t things.” ~ A J. D’Angelo

“If a child is to keep her inborn sense of wonder, she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with her the joy, excitement, and mystery of the natural world we live in.” ~ Rachel Carson

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

‎”You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy

‎”You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” ~A. Alda

“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.” – S.A.T.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

‎”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you someone else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

‎”The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”  - e.e. cummings

“There is always a soul need and longing to travel deeper into the heart and tap into things that our culture does not provide”. ~ Kay Moates

‎”What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel.” ~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

‎”You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it.” -Maya Angelou

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…” – John Muir

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

‎”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve always imagined.” (~ Thoreau)

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

‎”Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” – Rachael Carson

“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” – Sharon Gannon

“Advice is the only thing in the world that everybody gives and nobody takes.” (Osho)

‎”I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline & creativity is daring to dare.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Do it now! If you don’t you’re gonna be kicking yourself when you’re eighty which is hard to do and that’s how you break a hip.” ~Phoebe Buffay

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.” (Alfred Wainwright)

‎”To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” ~ Anna Quindl

‎”I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead

‎”Nature is a writer’s best friend.” ~ Agavé Powers

‎”It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back to the essence of ourselves” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” ~ Freya Stark

“Self-care is never a selfish act. Any time we can listen to our true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.” ~ Parker Palmer

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

‎”Cherish your solitude. Travel to places you have never been. Sleep under the stars. Say no whenever you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.” ~ Eve Ensler

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” ~ Betty Smith

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles across a desert, repenting. You just have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”. ~ Mary Oliver

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

‎”Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey