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After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he’d had enough. Impressing people wasn’t helping him connect with anyone. He’d built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships. So at forty yea

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“Here’s a thought that haunts me: What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love?…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“It’s no wonder I hid from the world. It’s no wonder parties made me tired or I got exhausted after I spoke. It’s no wonder criticism made me angry or I overreacted to failure. I think the part of me I sent out to interact with the world was, in some ways, underdeveloped, still trying to be bigger an…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“I’ve come to believe a person’s love for you can’t grow unless you hold that person loosely.”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“A group therapist created a terrific visual example of what a healthy relationship looks like. She put three pillows on the floor and asked a couple of us to stand on the pillows. She told us to leave the middle pillow open. She pointed at my pillow and said, "Don, that's your pillow, that's your li…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“It’s true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I’ve come to believe there’s something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“My friend looked at me confused. He laughed a little, then sighed, then teared up. “It’s true you’re bad at relationships,” I said, “but it’s also true you are good at them. They’re both true, old friend.” I reminded him of all the people who love him and all the people he’s loved. I told him I thou…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life’s challenges. T…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“I no longer believe love works like a fairy tale but like farming. Most of it is just getting up early and tilling the soil and then praying for rain. But if we do the work, we just might wake up one day to find an endless field of crops rolling into the horizon. In my opinion, that’s even better th…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think

“It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don’t have integrity, life becomes…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy

“Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology

“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness