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Donald Miller quotes about life
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can’t see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.
— Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father
Life is a dance toward God, I began to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing out practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign.
— Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
— Donald Miller
Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn’t feel meaningless.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
I’ve never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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