Sue Monk Kidd Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, What Matters, Color

• How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Thinking, Essence

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

• The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Prayer, Heart, Want

• Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Eye, Opportunity

• Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Dark, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

• Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.285, Penguin

• It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Sound, Firsts

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Forgiveness, Heart, Long

• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

• You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ocean, Heart, Yelling

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 14, 2013

• At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wall, Lying, Flower

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Hands, Needs

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

• The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Simple, Feet

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, People, World

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

• I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Sorry, Heart

• History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Heart, Events

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: With Notes”, p.369, Penguin

• The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, World, Depends

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.226, Penguin

• I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Heart, Talking

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Heart, People

• To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fashion, Pain, Heart

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