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We must err , do so on the side of audacity

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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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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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
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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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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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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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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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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
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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