Sue Monk Kidd Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
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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.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 01, 2014
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“The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.”
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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.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin
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“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”
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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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“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.”
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“The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.”
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“How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.”
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“Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.”
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“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.147, Penguin
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“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
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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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“Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.”
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“There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.17, Harper Collins
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“People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
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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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“That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.8, Harper Collins
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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.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 22, 2014
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“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”
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“Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.”
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“The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”
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“I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.”
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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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“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press
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“After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.”
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“There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.”
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“Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.”
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“The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.”
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“When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.”
-- Sue Monk KiddSource : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014
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