Donald Miller Quotes

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

Life is better when you share it.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

Man is not meant to live alone.

To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.