A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Quotes

“When the credits roll, we wonder what we did with our lives, and what was the meaning.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“My only consolation was I wasn’t alone. Most Americans aren’t living very good stories. It’s not our fault, I don’t think. We are suckered into it. We are brainwashed, I think.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Suddenly my life wasn’t boring or meaningless. There was something I had to do in order to keep a bad thing from happening.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“YOU DON’T KNOW a story is happening to you when you’re in it.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I laid down in front of the television and got lost in the story.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Here’s the truth about telling stories with your life. It’s going to sound like a great idea, and you are going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you’re not going to want to do it. It’s like that with writing books, and it’s like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I live in fantasies. I live terrific lives in my head. It’s part of the creative imagination, to daydream, to invent stories.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I asked him if it was scary being a father, and he told me, no, he loved it. He said his life had gotten smaller. His world had shrunk to his wife and his kid, and all that mattered was keeping them safe.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“we think we are the same person, but we aren’t. “People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren’t.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn’t the search but the transformation the search creates.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I knew all about story at this point, about how you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“When you are born, you wake slowly to everything. Your brain doesn’t stop growing until you turn twenty-six, so from birth to twenty-six, God is slowly turning the lights on, and you’re groggy and pointing at things saying circle and blue and car and then sex and job and health care.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I felt like I was in a movie and had two cameras for eyes,”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I was creating someone I could live through, the person I’d be if I redrew the world,”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Everything’s a mirror when you’re a writer; the computer monitor is a mirror. Who thinks they are so important they need to write books about themselves? Who are these people who write about themselves, and how did I become one of them?”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“But I didn’t like thinking about myself anymore. You get tired of thinking about yourself all the time when you’re a writer.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I thought about heaven, about how if we were shooting a movie about heaven, at the airport, we would want to shoot it there, and how in the movie, people would be arriving from earth and from other planets, and when the angels picked us up, they’d put us in their cars and drive a million miles for a thousand years, and it would be miserable until you got to where you were supposed to stay, where you would see your family and the girlfriend you had in the second grade, the girl you always believed was the only one who really loved you.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The movies I like best are the slow literary movies that don’t seem to be about anything and yet are about everything at the same time.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“If it was a good movie, the experience felt like somebody was resetting a compass in my brain so I could feel what was important in life and what wasn’t.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“You get a feeling when you look back on life that that’s all God really wants from us, to live inside a body he made and enjoy the story and bond with us through the experience.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“When the sun went down, the sky lit up like Jesus was coming back.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The thing about trying to remember your life is it makes you wonder what any of it means. You get the feeling life means something, but you’re not sure what. Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn’t have when you’re actually living it.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The stories we tell ourselves are very different from the stories we tell the world.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“What was most important would have been love, the severe desire for the child, not to succeed, but to fearlessly engage in a world in which love is so fearfully exchanged.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“It's true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story. But it's a good trade, because as soon as you point toward a horizon, life no longer feels meaningless.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Every conflict, no matter how hard, comes back to bless the protagonist if he will face his fate with courage. There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing. And I smiled. I'm not saying I was happy, but for some reason I smiled. It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“You can't go on without a story any longer than you can read a book about nothing.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life