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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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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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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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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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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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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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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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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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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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