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… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human; they are… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
