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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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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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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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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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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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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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Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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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's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
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