“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“This will sound ridiculous, I guess, but my life had started to feel so stagnant, like it was atrophied. Everything shrunk down… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Being in love and getting married, now, that's two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should… — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You know, some things don’t matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, pining for life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You've been halfway living your life for too long. May was saying that when it's time to die, go ahead and die,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“No," the mother told her. "It's too dangerous there". A small incident, but when multiplied a hundred, a thousand times in a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“When you're unsure of yourself," she said, "when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
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… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“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… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
