Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?