A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Quotes

“I knew he wouldn’t die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn’t think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“But that’s done now,” Jason said, shaking his head. “No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.” Part Two A Character”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The night after we talked, Jason couldn’t sleep. He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn’t provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn’t mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she’d chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. “She’s not a bad girl,” my friend said. “She was just choosing the best story available to her.” I pictured his daughter flipping through the channels of life, as it were, stopping on a story that seemed most compelling at the moment, a story that offered her something, anything, because people can’t live without a story, without a role to play. “So how did you get her out of it?”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Es verdad lo que Steven Pressfield dice: hay una fuerza que se opone a lo bello que hay en el mundo y muchísimos nos estamos rindiendo. Robert McKee afirma al final de su libro que el mundo necesita que seamos valientes. El mundo requiere que escribamos algo mejor.”
― Donald Miller, Un largo camino de mil años: Lo que aprendí al redactar mi vida

“Y una vez que sabes lo que se requiere para que la historia de tu vida sea mejor, no tienes opción. Rehusarte a vivir una mejor historia sería como decidirte a morir, a deambular por la vida adormecido hasta que te mueras, y no es natural que uno quiera morirse.”
― Donald Miller, Un largo camino de mil años: Lo que aprendí al redactar mi vida

“The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“La recompensa que obtienes al vivir una historia nunca es tan grande como te la habías imaginado y el trabajo es más duro de lo que creíste en un principio. Recuerda que el propósito de una historia nunca es el final, sino tu carácter que se moldea con el arduo trabajo que realizas en la parte del medio.”
― Donald Miller, Un largo camino de mil años: Lo que aprendí al redactar mi vida