The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
– Donald Miller
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- 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
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die. – Donald Miller
- We were made to be distracted by life, by story. – Donald Miller
- 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. – Donald Miller
- It wasn’t necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything. – Donald Miller
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- It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. – Tarun J Tejpal
- Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. – Oscar Wilde
- If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed. – Tiffany Madison
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- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- To admit what you see endangers principles. – Arthur Miller
- Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. – Donald Miller
- Life isn’t memorable enough to remember everything. It’s not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes. – Donald Miller
- The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. – Donald Miller
- The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension. – Donald Miller
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- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy’s notion of his father. – Donald Miller
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- He captures memories because if he forgets them, it’s as though they didn’t happen. – Donald Miller
- Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn’t Jesus’ fault. – Donald Miller
- In church, the rules of the lifeboat don’t apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked. – Donald Miller
- Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I’m actually quite surprised the Bible sells. – Donald Miller
- The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. – Donald Miller
- About the time I told God that He didn’t exist, I was desperate for an identity. – Donald Miller
- A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone. – Donald Miller
- All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere. – Donald Miller
- For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming. – Donald Miller