Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — 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
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now… — 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
I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.” — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image