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Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form."

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself."

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.




Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Sunset is the saddest light there is."

Sunset is the saddest light there is.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation."

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.




Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters."

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey."

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.




Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters."

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



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away."

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here."

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul."

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "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."

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.




Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time."

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?"

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it."

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts."

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience."

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now."

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "We become what we pay attention to."

We become what we pay attention to.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "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."

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.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection."

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside"

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't."

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was."

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are."

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith."

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming."

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back."

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things."

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work."

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now"

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work."

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "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."

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.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs."

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "You've 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."

You've 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.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about."

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough."

You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "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."

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.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up."

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period."

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "It's your time to live, don't mess it up."

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



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in."

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?"

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it."

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "There is nothing perfect...only life."

There is nothing perfect...only life.



Sue Monk Kidd Quotes: "I believe in the goodness of imagination."

I believe in the goodness of imagination.