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Stories Quotes by Donald Miller

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Stories are shown as forces that push people to change and give life meaning. Miller’s excerpts point out that without an inciting incident or conflict, a narrative feels flat and offers little purpose. He also mentions learning the craft of story can turn personal experience into a purposeful plot.

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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

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Great stories move through fear.

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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

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The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

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The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

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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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If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

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Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

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I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing…

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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

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When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my…

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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…

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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in…

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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good…

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Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories…

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He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to…

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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…

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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling…

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Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

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It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is…

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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know…

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I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.…

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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch…

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If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry…

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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…

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Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't…

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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. If…

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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world,…

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I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,…

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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life…

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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

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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…

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the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

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