Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.

The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it's stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that's where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

It comes from within.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.