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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Pain
Rebirth
Stories
Occurs
Heart
Inevitably
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I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
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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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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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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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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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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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So few people know what they're capable of.
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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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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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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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