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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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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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we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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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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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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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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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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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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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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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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