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What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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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.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
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I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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