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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.

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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Dies
Stories
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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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Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
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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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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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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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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
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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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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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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 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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We become what we pay attention to.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.
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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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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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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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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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