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Want Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

16 Want quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

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Kidd’s reflections on wanting often turn inward, exploring how desire shapes our spiritual and emotional journeys. In this concise collection you’ll find gentle guidance that feels like a quiet conversation with a wise mentor, urging you to honor the cravings that move you forward.

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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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Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on…

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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

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Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and…

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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 think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your…

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I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky…

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I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he…

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Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he…

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Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from…

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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that…

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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you…

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I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee…

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I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater…

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

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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 mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,…

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

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

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

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

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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 suddenly there--life…

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

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