Sue Monk Kidd - Love Quotes

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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.

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I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily—choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

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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 are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

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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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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 as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

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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.

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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

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There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

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A roach is a creature no one can love, but you cannot kill it. It will go on and on and on. Just try to get rid of it.

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