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Time Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

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A quilt shared with a loved one becomes a symbol of cherished time for Sue Monk Kidd. She talks about finding eternity in tiny moments, like the night sky feeling like skin, and about knowing when to act and when to stay quiet. Her words remind us that each moment holds a purpose.

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“One time, that true brass thimble.”

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The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

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“time to assert one’s right is when it’s denied!” “I’m sorry,”

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“That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.”

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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

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

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The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that…

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“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to…

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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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“escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South”

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We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.

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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants…

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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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“Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now…

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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness…

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“There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of…

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“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and…

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For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.…

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I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

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Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need…

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“There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old.…

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“Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude,…

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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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The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy…

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A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by…

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“gon be hard from here on, Handful. Since that day a year past, I’d got myself a friend in Miss Sarah and…

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“It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and…

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“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother…

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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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When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

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“Every time I shot back, What's wrong with living in a dream world? And she'd say, You have to wake up. ”

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“the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin”

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“I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.”

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It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

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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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“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that…

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I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want…

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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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“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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Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the…

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“That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.”

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,…

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we…

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

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,…

“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?”