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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
– Donald Miller

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  3. The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
  4. I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place. – Donald Miller
  5. A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. – Donald Miller
  6. If the tree doesn’t hug you back, it’s not a problem with the tree, it’s a problem with your heart. – Donald L Hicks
  7. To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. – William Kittredge
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  10. Forest is forest. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  11. It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps… – Tanith Lee
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  14. The forest, like a casino, always wins. That’s why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty. – Gitty Daneshvari
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  19. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die. – Donald Miller
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  22. It wasn’t necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything. – Donald Miller
  23. The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life. – Donald Miller
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  25. It’s a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest. – Richelle Mead
  26. When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange. – George Mikes
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