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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
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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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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
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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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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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We become what we pay attention to.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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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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Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
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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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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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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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I said, If I was a Negro girl- He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. We can't think of changing our skin, he said. Change the world-that's how we gotta think.
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