This guy.
Author: joelwitwer
Dear Future Wife,
This is probably going to happen in our house at some point. You’ve been warned.
Sincerely,
Joel
If a man has no sense of meaning, he will numb himself with pleasure.
– Donald Miller paraphrasing Viktor Frankl in Scary Close p.183
[I]f we live behind a mask we can impress but we can’t connect.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.171
Environments in which we are encouraged to hide our faults are toxic.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.158
[F]ear of letting people down is one of the primary reasons people procrastinate.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.143
[Y]ou can’t have a true, intimate relationship with people you control. Control is about fear. Intimacy is about risk.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.106
[True intimacy is] the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.98
Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p. 98
Loving a woman is scarier that climbing a mountain or sailing an ocean … A mountain can hurt your body and an ocean can drown you, but in the end you’re still a man for conquering them. Dead or alive, you’re still a man. A woman though, can rob your manhood and reduce you to a boy at the drop of a word.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p. 97