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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
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Nature
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Heartbreak
World
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Bees
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.
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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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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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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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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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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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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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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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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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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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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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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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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
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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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