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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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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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...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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If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
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