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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
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Pearland
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The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
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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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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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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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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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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
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When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
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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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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
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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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I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.
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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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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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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.
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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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