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There is nothing perfect...only life.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Nothing
Life
Perfect

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I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
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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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We become what we pay attention to.
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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.
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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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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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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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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 missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
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Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
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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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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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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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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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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 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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