Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

It took me a while to really figure out what my passion was and I think that was another reason why I struggled with anxiety and depression. Because if you don't know what your purpose and your passion is sometimes you don't know what life is for. Once I kind of got out of that rut, I realized that I'm so 100 percent okay with who Hannah is.

When you're 26, you can do anything.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.