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Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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 realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
Sue Monk Kidd
I'd heard August say more than once, If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.
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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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Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
Sue Monk Kidd
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
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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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
Sue Monk Kidd
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
Sue Monk Kidd
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
Sue Monk Kidd
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
Sue Monk Kidd
Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
Sue Monk Kidd
I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
Sue Monk Kidd
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
Sue Monk Kidd
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
Sue Monk Kidd