Donald Miller Want Quotations

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

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.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.