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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 that I was…
- 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…
- If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us…
- I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we…
- If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end…
- The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
- The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
- The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
- People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
- I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days,…
- Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
- Great stories move through fear.
- It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a…
- The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
- If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
- I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
- People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
- Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.
- I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
- If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
- I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic…
- We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
- If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
- No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
- The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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