Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I am my own heaven and hell!

We bless and curse ourselves.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.