642 Quotes by Donald Miller

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

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won’t be able to do alone.

It’s true the manipulator is the loneliest person in the world. And the second loneliest is the person being manipulated. Unless we’re honest with each other, we can’t connect. We can’t be intimate. Only God can penetrate a manipulative person’s heart, and even then, he sits quietly, waiting for them to stop running their con.

There’s a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I don’t read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics;.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn’t important it will be easy.

I have friends who are writers, but we don’t tend to talk about literature very much. It’s just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I’m working on.

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let’s do that thing with people we love.