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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. (Sue Monk Kidd)
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. View quote
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I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home. View quote
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair... View quote
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We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think. View quote
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We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. View quote
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. View quote
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? (Sue Monk Kidd)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. View quote
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. View quote
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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. View quote
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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die. View quote
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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. View quote
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them? View quote
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again. View quote
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess. (Sue Monk Kidd)
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up. View quote
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it. View quote
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I believe in the goodness of imagination. View quote
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People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. View quote
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Sue Monk Kidd

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: August 12, 1948
Quotes count: 108
Wikipedia: Sue Monk Kidd

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