When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
—Donald Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the things we need.
—Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz
If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.
—Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
—Donald Miller in Through Painted Deserts
Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
—Donald Miller in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years