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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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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.
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When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, You're good, or Good job.
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
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Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.
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We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.
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If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't we'll see.
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