Donald Miller Quotes

Who does understand life?

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?