Donald Miller Quotes

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Freedom from the wants of the body can help fulfill the needs of the spirit.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.