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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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So few people know what they're capable of.
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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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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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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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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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
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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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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
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