Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless."
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"I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless."
"لم يسبق لي أن غادرت فيلمًا لا معنى له وأنا أظن أن "كل" الأفلام بلا معنى. كل ما ظننته هو أن الفيلم الذي غادرته كان بلا معنى. أتساءل إذن، حين يقول الناس إن الحياة بلا معنى، هل يقصدون حقًا أن "حياتهم" هم بلا معنى؟"
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless."
"لم تعد الحياة تبدو بلا معنى. لقد غدت مرهقة ومخيفة، لكنها بالتأكيد لم تكن بلا معنى."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"..[My friend Marco said]. essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long middle in which they are compelled to search for a mate and reproduce and also create stability out of natural instability and then they find themselves at an ending tha seems to be designed for reflection. At the end, their bodies are slower, they are not as easily distracted, they do less work, and they think and feel about a life lived rather than look forward to a life getting started. He didn't know what the point of the journey was, but 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. ...[I wondered] that 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. The point of a story is the character arc, the change."
"...[قال صديقي ماركو]: إن البشر، في جوهرهم، أحياء لغرض رحلة، أشبه ببنية من ثلاثة فصول. يولدون ويقضون سنوات عدة في اكتشاف ذواتهم والعالم، ثم يقطعون مرحلة وسطى طويلة يُجبرون فيها على البحث عن رفيق والتكاثر، وكذلك خلق الاستقرار من عدم الاستقرار الطبيعي، ثم يجدون أنفسهم في نهاية تبدو مصممة للتأمل. في النهاية، تصبح أجسادهم أبطأ، ولا يسهل تشتيت انتباههم، ويقل عملهم، ويفكرون ويشعرون بحياة عاشوها بدلاً من التطلع إلى حياة بدأت للتو. لم يكن يعلم ما هي الغاية من هذه الرحلة، لكنه كان يؤمن بأننا صُممنا للبحث عن شيء وإيجاده. وتساءل بصوت عالٍ عما إذا كانت الغاية ليست البحث بحد ذاته، بل التحول الذي يخلقه البحث. ...[تساءلت أنا]: هل صُممنا لنعيش شيئًا ما بدلاً من أن نحقق شيئًا ما، وأن هذا الشيء الذي قُدر لنا أن نعيشه صُمم ليغيرنا؟ إن جوهر القصة هو مسار الشخصية، التغيير."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another."
"إذا كان مغزى الحياة هو ذاته مغزى القصة، فإن مغزى الحياة يكمن في تحوّل الشخصية. وإن نلتُ أي طمأنينة حين شرعتُ في قصتي الأولى، فكانت في أن البطل في جلّ القصص يمرّ بتحوّل. فقد يكون فظاً في البداية ثم يصبح لطيفاً في النهاية، أو جباناً في مستهلها ثم شجاعاً في ختامها. وإن لم تتغير الشخصية، فالقصة لم تقع بعد. وإذا كانت القصة مستقاة من واقع الحياة، وإذا كانت مجرد خلاصة مكثفة لها، فلعل الحياة نفسها قد صُممت لتبديلنا، كي نرتقي من حال إلى حال."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on the lights, and you are groggy and pointing at things, and say "Circle," and, "Blue,", and, "Car," and, "Sex," and then, "Job," and, "Healthcare". The experience is so slow, you could easily come to believe life isn't that big of a deal, that life isn't staggering. Life IS staggering, and we are just too used to it."
"إذا تأملت الأمر، فإننا نُحرم من سرّ الحياة. أعتقد أننا نُسلب مجدها لأننا لا نتذكر كيف وصلنا إلى هنا. عندما تولد، تستيقظ ببطء على كل شيء. من الولادة حتى السادسة والعشرين، يُشعل الله الأنوار تدريجيًا، وأنت في حالة من الخمول تشير إلى الأشياء، وتقول "دائرة"، و"أزرق"، و"سيارة"، و"جنس"، ثم "وظيفة"، و"رعاية صحية". هذه التجربة من البطء بحيث يسهل عليك أن تعتقد أن الحياة ليست بالأمر الجلل، وأنها ليست مهيبة. الحياة *مهيبة* حقًا، لكننا اعتدنا عليها أكثر من اللازم."
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."
"إن سبب التوتر الدرامي في القصص هو أن الحياة نفسها تنطوي على توتر درامي."
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 all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience."
"يساورك شعورٌ حين تسترجع شريط الحياة بأن كل ما يريده الله منا حقًا هو أن نسكن جسدًا خلقه، ونستمتع بالقصة، ونتواصل معه من خلال هذه التجربة."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference."
"تتخذ الحياة شعورًا غريبًا حين ننظر إليها في الماضي، يختلف عما هي عليه ونحن نعيشها فعليًا. كأنما صُممت بأكملها لتُفهم بعد فوات الأوان، وكأنك لن تدرك معنى تجاربك إلا بعد أن تتراكم لديك ما يكفي منها لتشكل مرجعًا."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life."
"إن المبادئ ذاتها التي تُشكل قصة جيدة هي ذاتها التي تُشكل حياة جيدة."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important."
"تستند القصة إلى ما يراه الناس ذا أهمية، لذا فحين نعيش قصة ما، فإننا نخبر من حولنا بما نراه نحن ذا أهمية."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything."
"لم يكن الفوز ضروريًا لتكون القصة عظيمة، بل كان يكفي التضحية بكل شيء."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"We were made to be distracted by life, by story."
"وُجدنا لنُلهى بالحياة، وبالقصة."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"... I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"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."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city... I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing."
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
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
"The mountains themselves call us into greater stories."
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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