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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
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Become
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If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.
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The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.
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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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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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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 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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I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
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I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
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She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.
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...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
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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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We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
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