642 Quotes by Donald Miller

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won’t be meaningful.

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, ‘This is my idea and here’s all the reasons that it’s right.’ It doesn’t make for very compelling reading.

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.

We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don’t have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it’s not natural to want to die.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn’t going to lead anybody anywhere.

God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets in the rainstorms as though to say, “Enjoy your place in My story, the very beauty of it means it’s not about you, and in time that will give you comfort.

If you don’t feel free and be yourself, you can’t connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They’ll heal your soul.