Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on.