Quoting Sue Monk Kidd

Cause I'm not entirely sure if her surname is Monk Kidd or Kidd, anyway both sounded bitin, thus the full name. 

Sharing some quotes from The Secret Life of Bees, by far the loveliest book I've picked up during this little "break" of mine. :)

Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have the special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. 

You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon. 

... it's something everybody wants- for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. 

Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.  

There's a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to keep quiet, when to let things take their course.

I hope I would get just a few minutes for a private conversation with God. I wanted to say: "Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives are a mess."

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

...nobody is perfect ... you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. 

 The world will give you that for a moment, a brief timeout: the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner where somebody dabs mercy on your beat up life. 

You gotta imagine what's never been.

I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love... I can tell you thus much: the word is a great big log thrown at the fires of hell.

Sometimes things of magnitude settle over you in excruciating slowness. Say you break your ankle and don't feel you're hurting until you've walked another block. 

There is nothing perfect. There is only life.

My favorite, is this quote about how to treat bees. I realized, that this could pretty well be the basics on going through life. :)

Don't be afraid [as no life-loving bee wants to sting you]. Still don't be an idiot [wear long sleeves and pants]. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts [a bee's] temper. Act like you know what you're doing even if you don't. And above all, send [the bees] love. Every little thing wants to be loved. 

Don't be afraid. Don't be an idiot either. And above all, send love.

It can't get any simpler than that. :)


Roanni