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Book: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Quotes of Book: A Million Miles in a Thousand
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  1. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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  2. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    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.
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  3. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing.
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  4. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    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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  5. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    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.
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  6. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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  7. Donald Miller _ A Million Miles in a Thousand

    When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are."
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