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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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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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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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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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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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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
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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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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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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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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 knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.
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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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I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
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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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Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
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