Quotes from Donald Miller

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.