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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
She said she had married a guy, and he was just a guy. He wasn’t going to make all her problems go away, because he was just a guy. And that freed her to really love him as a guy, not as an ultimate problem solver. And because her husband believed she was just a girl, he was free to really love her too. Neither needed the other to make everything o
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Dennis Pipper added 4mo ago
the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
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Dennis Pipper added 4mo ago
I wish people who struggle against dark thoughts would risk their hopes on living a good story—by that I mean finding a team of people doing hard work for a noble cause, and joining them. I think they’d be surprised at how soon their sad thoughts would dissipate, if for no other reason than they didn’t have time to think them anymore.
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Dennis Pipper added 4mo ago
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn’t mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It’s a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat the
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Dennis Pipper added 4mo ago
We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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Pawel Jaczewski added 4mo ago
finding a team of people doing hard work for a noble cause, and joining them.
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Pawel Jaczewski added 4mo ago
humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon.
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Pawel Jaczewski added 4mo ago
characters don’t want to change. They must be forced to change. Nobody wakes up and starts chasing a bad guy
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Pawel Jaczewski added 4mo ago
the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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Pawel Jaczewski added 4mo ago