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Here’s a curated collection of **Sue Monk Kidd’s most resonant words of wisdom**—insights drawn from her novels and spiritual writing, touching on themes like life’s richness, forgiveness, truth, inner growth, and finding one’s true self:
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### The Beauty in Everyday Blessings & Choosing What Matters
* **“The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.”**
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* **“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”**
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### Forgiveness, Truth, and Mercy
* **“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.”**
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* **“Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier… once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”**
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* **“You forgive what you can, when you can… Forgiveness means releasing our rage… and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.”**
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### Spiritual Identity, the True Self & Soul Work
* **“The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.”**
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* **“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”**
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### Growth, Creativity & the Edge of Becoming
* **“Our earlier lives aren’t wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve… The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.”**
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* **“When you can’t go forward, and you can’t go backward, and you can’t stay where you are… you are on the edge of creation.”**
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* **“The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity.”**
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### Presence, Waiting & Inner Stillness
* **“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new?”**
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* **“The monk at St. Meinrad… said, ‘When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.’”**
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### Why These Words Resonate
| Theme | Insight |
| ———————————— | —————————————————————————- |
| **Appreciation & Intentionality** | Finds depth in small joys while challenging us to choose what truly matters. |
| **Growth & Courage** | Acknowledges transformation requires honesty, risk, and creative daring. |
| **Spiritual Depth & Self-Discovery** | Invites us to move beyond external roles and awaken to who we truly are. |
| **Presence & Healing** | Waits with purpose, valuing inward stillness as a path to becoming. |
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Would you like to explore specific works—like *When the Heart Waits* or *The Secret Life of Bees*—where these themes are woven together? Or perhaps you’d prefer reflections from a particular area like creativity, identity, or spiritual growth?
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4711.Sue_Monk_Kidd?utm_source=chatgpt.com ”Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd (Author of The Secret Life of Bees)”
[2]: https://www.creatosaurus.io/apps/quotes/topics/sue-monk-kidd-quotes?utm_source=chatgpt.com ”Sue Monk Kidd Quotes”
[3]: https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/quotes/authors/sue-monk-kidd?utm_source=chatgpt.com ”Quotes by \”Sue Monk Kidd\””
[4]: https://www.azquotes.com/author/7991-Sue_Monk_Kidd?utm_source=chatgpt.com ”TOP 25 QUOTES BY SUE MONK KIDD (of 222)”
[5]: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sue-monk-kidd-quotes?utm_source=chatgpt.com ”Sue Monk Kidd Quotes”