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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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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.
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Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.
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