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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

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Deep
Beauty
Find
Matter
Something
Yearns

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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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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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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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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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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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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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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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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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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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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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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my energy from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
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