Donald Miller, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life Quotes
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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.
Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.
The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.
You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
We were made to be distracted by life, by story.
...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.
You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.
When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.
God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.
He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.