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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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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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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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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
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