But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.
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- ...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. β¨ Donald Miller (2012). Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc
- Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. β¨ Donald Miller (2009). A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc
- The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest. β¨ Donald Miller (2009). A Million Mile β¦ βΆ
- Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. β¨ Twitter post from Dec 08, 2015
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