A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
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Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
The experience is so slow you could easily come to believe life isn’t that big of a deal, that life isn’t staggering. What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, j
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person’s story is about, just ask them what they want.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Kathy. I have brought you to this place to show you something important. This is what happens when my compassion and love leave a place. It is when people do not allow God to show up through them, she realized, that the world collapses in on itself.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Sometimes I’d do the thing God wanted, and the story always went well, of course; and sometimes I’d ignore it and watch television.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
When Isla walked into the bar, I heard Ben say “inciting incident” under his breath. And it was true, because once she walked into the bar, Rick’s life changed and there was nothing he could do about it. His girl was back, and he never thought he’d see her again. The inciting incident had disrupted his comfortable life, and he would naturally seek
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Inciting incident from Casablanca
we can be unwilling victims rather than grateful participants.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
William Zinsser says that writers “love to have written,”
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.