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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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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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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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So few people know what they're capable of.
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We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
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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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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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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 eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
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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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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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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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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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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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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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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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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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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 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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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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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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