Donald Miller Quotes

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Donald Miller

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gay

• I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Long
  • Think
  • Same

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nature

• Amaal and I have some sort of magnetic connection. I am my brother's first assistant. So I have sung the scratch versions of all his songs. We make music at home, jam every day.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Music
  • Home
  • Brother

• I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

  

  JoJo
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Passion

• Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

  

  Jules Verne
  • American
  • President
  • Records

• The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Schoolhouse Door

• I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Understanding