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People in general would rather die than forgive. It'
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motivational
inspirational
forgiveness
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My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.
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There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
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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 with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters."
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meaning
life
values
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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 you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.
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Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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My mother's life was way too heavy for me.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had t..
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women
race
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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9e2a900
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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings -- Sue Monk Kidd"
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I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.
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suicide
live
tired
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall - I dove.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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328485e
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People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
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people
life
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.
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world
problems
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all.
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Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word."
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Regrets don't help anything.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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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 that lingers in the space between going and coming.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth."
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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4b1e153
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For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.
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life
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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c766383
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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relateable
pressure
girls
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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f248d51
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When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
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Sue Monk Kidd |