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Sunset is the saddest light there is.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Saddest
Sunset
Light

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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
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I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.
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We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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