Top 500 Sue Monk Kidd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

3. “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.”

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4. “We become what we pay attention to.”

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5. “Into every life a little rain must fall.”

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6. “The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”

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7. “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.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

8. “We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.”

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9. “You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.”

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10. “All my life I’ve thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”

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11. “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.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

12. “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.”

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13. “Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.”

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

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15. “The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.”

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

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17. “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

18. “Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I’m dead and gone, That’s what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I’ll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.”

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19. “The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.”

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20. “What’s wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”

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21. “After you get stung, you can’t get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.”

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22. “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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23. “There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.”

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24. “You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.”

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25. “Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.”

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26. “It’s your time to live, don’t mess it up.”

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27. “I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic ‘I’ within – an ‘I Am,’ or divine spark within the soul.”

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28. “Every little thing wants to be loved.”

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29. “You gotta imagine what’s never been.”

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30. “There’s release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there’s nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

31. “If you aren’t giving people something to talk about, you’ve become too dull.”

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32. “You can go other places, all right – you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “Sunset is the saddest light there is.”

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35. “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 didn’t know which one was heavier.”

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

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37. “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”

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38. “You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards” -Secret Life of the Bees.”

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39. “Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.”

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42. “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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43. “I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

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45. “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.”

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

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47. “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”

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

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

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50. “You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”

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