"Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless"
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Donald Miller quotes (page 13 of 15)
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"All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something."
"True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming."
"What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets."
"More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem"
"Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything."
"Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story."
"I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father."
"Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror"
"Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots."
"The heart responds to the conflict within a story."
"Even our beliefs have become trend statements."
"The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things."
"In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion."
"The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me."
"Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting."
"Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself."
"The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life."
"It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same."
"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."