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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages? August said. And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
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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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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
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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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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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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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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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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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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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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
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