Donald Miller Quotes
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
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Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
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Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
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He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
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Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
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If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.