Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Nothing could have survived our life.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

We do not suffer by accident.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.