Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

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

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

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.

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

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.

Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

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

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

Every little thing wants to be loved.

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

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.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

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

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

Regrets don't help anything.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

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

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

What matters is giving over to what you love.