Donald Miller Quotes

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Our lives teach us who we are.

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.