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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
Time
Mess
Live

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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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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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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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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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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my energy from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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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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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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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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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
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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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I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
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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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I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
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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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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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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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