Sue Monk Kidd quote: "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."

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the id...
SUE MONK KIDD

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in wr...
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The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth...
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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides...
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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as ...
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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to ...
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There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of &#...
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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, ...
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With pencil, you can always erase.
SUE MONK KIDD

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
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I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it...
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreduc...
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just ...
SUE MONK KIDD

There is nothing perfect...only life.
SUE MONK KIDD

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

On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's righ...
SUE MONK KIDD

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...
SUE MONK KIDD

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spiri...
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Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinte...
SUE MONK KIDD

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
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Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted...
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I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ...
SUE MONK KIDD

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

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to...
SUE MONK KIDD

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not con...
SUE MONK KIDD

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us d...
SUE MONK KIDD

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separa...
SUE MONK KIDD

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them....
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I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other ...
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Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of ...
SUE MONK KIDD

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to yo...
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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I d...
SUE MONK KIDD

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footste...
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I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave...
SUE MONK KIDD

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body k...
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There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years o...
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The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EME...
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God ...
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're he...
SUE MONK KIDD

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a...
SUE MONK KIDD

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now an...
SUE MONK KIDD

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invent...
SUE MONK KIDD

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, a...
SUE MONK KIDD

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at ...
SUE MONK KIDD

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest ...
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People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain languag...
SUE MONK KIDD

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the ris...
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Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear...
SUE MONK KIDD

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ...
SUE MONK KIDD

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our cap...
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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repos...
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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...
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I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to ...
SUE MONK KIDD

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to...
SUE MONK KIDD

...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, ...
SUE MONK KIDD

Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
T...
SUE MONK KIDD

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...
SUE MONK KIDD

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was a...
SUE MONK KIDD

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my...
SUE MONK KIDD

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
SUE MONK KIDD

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

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boat...
SUE MONK KIDD

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it fr...
SUE MONK KIDD

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with som...
SUE MONK KIDD

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

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

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
SUE MONK KIDD

You gotta imagine what's never been.
SUE MONK KIDD

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your e...
SUE MONK KIDD

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the ...
SUE MONK KIDD

Sunset is the saddest light there is.
SUE MONK KIDD

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

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women m...
SUE MONK KIDD

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

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, ...
SUE MONK KIDD

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happen...
SUE MONK KIDD

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

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with ...
SUE MONK KIDD

I believe in the goodness of imagination.
SUE MONK KIDD

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?
SUE MONK KIDD

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
SUE MONK KIDD

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
SUE MONK KIDD

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was par...
SUE MONK KIDD

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
MEREDITH MONK

I've never had an empty house. Ever.
MEREDITH MONK

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and...
MEREDITH MONK

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and...
MEREDITH MONK

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
MEREDITH MONK

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did...
MEREDITH MONK

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're ...
MEREDITH MONK

I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actua...
MEREDITH MONK

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going d...
MEREDITH MONK

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to...
MEREDITH MONK

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to...
MEREDITH MONK

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It...
MEREDITH MONK

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK

The majority of profit has nothing to do with our benifit, hence the battle is lost enduring the war...
MONK FROST

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK

Ignorance is not bliss, but a blindfold.
MONK FROST

My parents taught me well,they spanked me every once in awhile.
MONK FROST

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but...
MARIA MONK

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by...
MARIA MONK

He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. T...
DEVON MONK

He's a perfectionist. He's laid back, but when you do something wrong he'll tell you about it.
MARCUS MONK

His largest attribute is the abilility to defend family.
MONK FROST

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
THELONIOUS MONK

He tried to put it out, but when he realized it was bigger than he was he called the fire department...
ANTHONY MONK

My biggest fear was Antoine was trapped in his room. Those video games can be hypnotic.
ANTHONY MONK

On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK

Opinions are for fools who guess.
MONK FROST

It's the Coliseum - we know that. We just try to treat it like another game. If you want to be the b...
MARCUS MONK

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.
THELONIOUS MONK

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
THELONIOUS MONK

The largest tragedy is our apathy.
MONK FROST

As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy languish.
MONK FROST

As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy langiuish.
MONK FROST

To assume is to know less than nothing.
MONK FROST

Life is the battle fought against stife.
MONK FROST

It's so surreal it's hysterical.
SOPHIE MONK

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wishe...
MARIA MONK

After about a month, the aches and pains are gone, but then the homesickness starts to set in. You'v...
GARY MONK

"To care about another's opinion of myself, I would first need to care about it!
MONK FROST

Crude as oil is our responsibility.
MONK FROST

Pride belongs to the lion's share.
MONK FROST

Tonight we dream, about the past, and a better tomorrow.
MONK FROST

Common sense is for our lack of wisdom.
MONK FROST

Life is the battle fought against strife.
MONK FROST

Truth is simple as the fact we ignore.
MONK FROST

Wisdom is for the few whom realize the difference.
MONK FROST

Frail the human's race.
MONK FROST

Stare into a mirror through a single pane of glass Adore the reflection for the image will soon pass
MONK FROST

This year's county meet will be one of the most competitive in many years. The dedication of so many...
CATHI MONK

This was an absolutely elite field (of athletes). To have that many athletes finish in the top three...
CATHI MONK

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the...
MARIA MONK

I ended up donating $100.
DAVID MONK

My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK

You need to ask the right questions, you need to make sure and get references from them, for local p...
DAVID MONK

depending on the size of the storm, 3 weeks to 3 months, sometimes we've stayed as long as 6 months.
DAVID MONK

A lot of people have a romantic ideal of what it's going to be like. They don't expect that the weat...
GARY MONK

There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels...
GARY MONK

We weren't just learning anything new, we were rusty. But now we're just ready to get out there for ...
MARCUS MONK

Teams won't know if we're throwing the ball or running, and it is going to be harder for them to pre...
MARCUS MONK

Once we get on the same page we'll be able to do some big things. This offense gives an opportunity ...
MARCUS MONK

It's different from last year, ... You had to improvise with Matt, but with these quarterbacks - thr...
MARCUS MONK

Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.
DEVON MONK

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no a...
MARIA MONK

Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't...
DEVON MONK

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art...
MEREDITH MONK

I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.
SOPHIE MONK

I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she...
DEVON MONK

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn...
JASON KIDD

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
JASON KIDD

If a man does his best, what else is there?
JASON KIDD

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of know...
JASON KIDD

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
CHIP KIDD

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
JASON KIDD

It's always too early to quit.
JASON KIDD

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
JASON KIDD

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or...
JASON KIDD

There's stranger sex than sex with strangers.
KRIS KIDD

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both vis...
CHIP KIDD

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out...
JASON KIDD

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.
JASON KIDD

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and ...
JASON KIDD

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ...
JASON KIDD

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches t...
JASON KIDD

I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
JASON KIDD

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're tal...
JASON KIDD

As you get older you appreciate the triple-double a little more. It would be really nice to get one ...
JASON KIDD

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to...
WILLIAM KIDD

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.
JASON KIDD

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have goo...
WILLIAM KIDD

You heard so many horror stories, ... There was a gentleman holding onto his family and onto a pole....
JASON KIDD

From the first year when I got here, we are a lot deeper, ... And offensively, we are off the charts...
JASON KIDD

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there, so as a player...
JASON KIDD

It's night and day. It's two different players.
JASON KIDD

That's the draw. Coach Brown can draw. He can put 'em in the seats.
JASON KIDD

I don't know what's going to happen. The business always gets in the way of basketball. If there was...
JASON KIDD

I have mixed emotions, ... I'm sad to be leaving Dallas. I thought we had a good opportunity here. A...
JASON KIDD

I thought I was trying to do my best and what he wanted me to do, ... I was getting the grasp of it....
JASON KIDD

We have a long ways to go. We didn't play any defense. Again, it's no gray area with us. If we don't...
JASON KIDD

On paper you have some big names, but this team just got put together two months ago. It's still try...
JASON KIDD

I think a veteran team never panics, and we did not panic. They made a run, and we expected they wou...
JASON KIDD

I'm glad we got another game (tonight) and it's not in Memphis.
JASON KIDD

The big thing for us is to get back to winning and look at what we're not doing. That's taking care ...
JASON KIDD

We're a team. We've played without guys that have been hurt for six weeks. Guys are going to have to...
JASON KIDD

We went to small ball,
JASON KIDD

The season's too young. It's 14 games into the season. Nobody will remember this one.
JASON KIDD

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that wil...
JASON KIDD

No effort. From top to bottom, we just didn't come with any effort.
JASON KIDD

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options,
JASON KIDD

We came out of the blocks and we were going in the right direction and then we took a breath and the...
JASON KIDD

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.

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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.

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