Donald Miller Quotes

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

There's nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.