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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but 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
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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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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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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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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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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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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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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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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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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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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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