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Life Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

79 Life quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd describes moments when life hardens into a clear, cruel bead that reveals truth. She contrasts death as the scariest thing with the idea that life can be understood through odd, inexplicable arrangements. She also sees dreams as tiny stories we act out while asleep.

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When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

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My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

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The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,

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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

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People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

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There is nothing perfect...only life.

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“There is nothing perfect...there is only life.”

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You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

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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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“You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely…

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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we…

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“People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

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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…

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“The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees”

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“it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment,…

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“You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we…

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Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.…

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“This will sound ridiculous, I guess, but my life had started to feel so stagnant, like it was atrophied. Everything shrunk down…

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A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and…

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“All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit,…

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“The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is…

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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir…

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“August says to Lily," You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is…

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The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything…

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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center…

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“A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and…

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“You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over-all…

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“She said it again, "I'm tired." She wanted me to tell her it was all right, to get her spirit and go…

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My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful…

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“As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in…

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“Pure in heart means to be sing-hearted... to will one thing- God. All (Jesus)'s moments flowed from His single-heartedness, from His intimacy…

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“There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”

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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…

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Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

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Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

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“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.”

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“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.”

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“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

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“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”

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“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”

“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross…

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life…

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”

“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”

“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of…

“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?”