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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Right
Eats
Sooner
Later
Loss
Inside
Takes
Everything

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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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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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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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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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
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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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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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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.
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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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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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