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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Mess
Live
Time

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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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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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We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
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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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From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
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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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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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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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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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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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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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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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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
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