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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Years
Forty
Like
Seemed
Worse
Gone
Getting
Church
Tell
Something

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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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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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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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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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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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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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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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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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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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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.
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