Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth?

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to re...

You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.

The night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin

He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

There is a seed of light inside of us, a mysterious Inner Voice.

A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt gathered together and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song c...

Aber sie sagte immer dass Frauen einfach die besseren Imkerinen seien weil ihnen die besondere Faehigkeit angeboren sei Kreaturen zu lieben die ihnen wehtun.

Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

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

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more hars...

Being in love and getting married, now, that's two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should go through life without falling in love. But didn't you love him enough to marry...

Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with p...

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.

Drawing a breath, I flung myself across the door sill. That was the artless way I navigated the hurdles of girlhood. Everyone thought I was a plucky girl, but in truth, I wasn’t as fearless as everyon...

Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don't care what their job is--they know the queen is their mother. She's t...

Every girl comes into the world with varying degrees of ambition, she said, even if it’s only the hope of not belonging body and soul to her husband.

Every little thing wants to be loved.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.