5 Don Miller Quotes on Friendship

Don Miller quotes on friendship

11. 'You know what I want in a woman, Paul?' 'What's that?' 'A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.'

18. 'All this beauty makes a person realize how insignificant they are,' Paul says. 'How insignificant I am. You're the insignificant one' He grins real big as he realizes how his words sounded. 'I didn't mean it like that,' he chuckles. 'No, I know what you meant, bud. I was just thinking kind of the same thing. I was looking at all this depth and it came to me how very shallow you are.' 'Ha, ha,' Paul chortles. He takes a few steps down the trail and turns. 'You know, Don, I was just looking at this little flowery cactus here and thinking how nice it looks and it made me realize how ugly you are.' 'Is that right,' I say. 'Well, I was just considering how smart these rocks look and it made me realize how dumb you are.' With that I give him a little kick in the backside. 'How smart these rocks are?' he heckles. 'Well, I was just looking at that cloud up there, reflecting on its beauty and stuff, and it hit me how much you smell.' 'Is that right,' I say. 'The cloud made you realize that, huh?' Paul distances himself a little and keeps turning to see if I am going to kick him again. He's got this grin going like he got the last laugh. 'You know, Paul, I was just looking at this bebble and it made me realize that I'm going to tackle you and throw you off the ledge.' 'I see. That's real deep, Don. The pebble. you got that from a pebble?'

84. 'You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend.'

86. I no longer think being in love is the polar opposite of being alone, however. I say that because I used to want to be in love again as I assumed this was the opposite of lonliness. I think being in love is an opposite of lonliness, but not the opposite. There are other things I now crave when I am lonely, like community, like friendship, like family. I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

88. When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.