Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.