Donald Miller Quotes

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

Life is a work in progress.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

I'm a beginning, not an end.