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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Stop
Heart
Really
Yelling
Like
Waves
Wave
Loving
Ocean
Standing

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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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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
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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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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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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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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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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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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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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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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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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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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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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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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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