“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
“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
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — 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
“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
“The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.” — 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
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
“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
“The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is… — 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
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a… — 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
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit,… — 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
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
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
“it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment,… — 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
