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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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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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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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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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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.
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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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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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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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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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