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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
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You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.
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T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
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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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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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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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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
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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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Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
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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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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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