Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. Donald Miller More Quotes by Donald Miller More Quotes From Donald Miller The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. Donald Miller ambitionstories I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. Donald Miller linesselfworld People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. Donald Miller storieswantpeople It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want. Donald Miller wantpeopleideas I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand. Donald Miller writingideasthinking We have to have positive male role models. Donald Miller malesrole-modelsroles Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. Donald Miller differentstoriesaction Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting. Donald Miller sizesampleheavy When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. Donald Miller too-muchbookthinking To change the world you'll need a pen. Donald Miller changing-the-worldworldneeds When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy. Donald Miller healthyblessedwant Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either. Donald Miller imperfectionsticksgrace True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. Donald Miller twolyingpeople 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 takenbeautifulpeople It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse. Donald Miller menfatherthinking There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. Donald Miller reedsconservativecollege It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same. Donald Miller chinesegoldcharacter I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth. Donald Miller ability-to-communicatemysterylanguage I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies. Donald Miller selfrainnight Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. Donald Miller robotsformart
