Quotes from ‘Scary Close’ by Donald Miller
“I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.”
“I thought also about how content and comfortable I was being single, how much control I had in my life, how I could go out and get applause anytime I wanted and then retreat to the green room of my life, eating Oreos and waiting for my next performance.”
“In order to experience a meaningful life, I’d have to face the fear of jumping in- not just in relationships, but in life, in our careers and our rest and our play.”
“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are.”
“I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people”
“When there are lies in a relationship, it’s not like you’re actually connecting”
“In the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. .. relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet or media consumption.”
“If you want to make a sad person happy, start by planting them in a community of optimists.”
“I got pickier about who I spent time with. I wanted to be with people who were humble and hungry, had healthy relationships and were working to create new and better realities in the world.”
“A healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship/”
“I began to trust the slow and natural process of learning to love and be loved by another person”
“Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on”
“Controlling people are the loneliest people in the world”
“I realized that one of the reasons I’d be so isolated was because I’d subconsciously believed I wasn’t all that good for people. If our identity gets broken, it affects our ability to connect.”
“Life is more about connecting with people than it is about competing with them.”
“Can you imagine coming to the end of your life, being surrounded by people who loved you, only you realize they never fully knew you?”
“Judgment shuts us down and makes us hide. It keeps us from connecting with other people.”
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