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Sue Monk Kidd quotes

American Writer August 12, 1948

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Sue Monk Kidd quote: "People can start out one way, and by the time life gets..."
People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "People start out one way, and by the time life gets through..."
People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. Sue Monk Kidd
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. Sue Monk Kidd
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. Sue Monk Kidd
Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet. Sue Monk Kidd
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. Sue Monk Kidd
One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is. Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "My mother's life was way too heavy for me."
My mother's life was way too heavy for me. Sue Monk Kidd
some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. Sue Monk Kidd
A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek. Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without..."
It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint. Sue Monk Kidd
You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, that matters. Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "Into every life a little rain must fall."
Into every life a little rain must fall. Sue Monk Kidd
The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched, my life streaming out behind me, a leap against all proprieties and expectations, but a leap that was somehow saving and necessary. How can I ever explain or account for that? I dove, and a pair of invisible arms simply appeared, unstinting arms, like the musculature of grace suddenly revealing itself. They caught me after I hit the water, bearing me not to the... Sue Monk Kidd
All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself. Sue Monk Kidd

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