Miguel Angel Ruiz Books & Quotes

“If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Certain Truth Is Expectations What You Want Obligation Want Me You Want Me

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.”

Feels Art Moments Creation Expression Happenings Endless Ongoing

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.”

Trying Enough Fear Rewards Be Good Rejection Good Enough Fear Of Rejection Being Good Enough Not Being Good Enough

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.”

Giving Reason Return Innocence Purity No Reason Where You Are Surround Surround Yourself Enchanted

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Safe Secure Insecurity

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.”

Believe Humans Boundaries Limitation

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.”

People World Dream Heaven Enjoy Magic Changing The World Enjoy Life Loving Myself Changing Myself

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.”

Way Particular Finding Yourself Originality Express Yourself

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.”

Want Happens Games Fun Pleasure Love You Okay Having Fun Disappoint Whatever Happens

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.”

Asks Assumption Four Agreements

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.”

Ifs Needs Feels Mind Important Answers Millions Safe Reasoning

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves... when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.”

Quality Conditions Communication Truth Is Protect Expectations Track Obligation

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.”

Knows Feels I Can Silence Truth Is Silent

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.”

Ifs Looks Reason Motivational Suffering Choices Excuse No Reason You Choose Happiness Is A Choice Choose To Be Happy You Choose To Be Happy

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.”

“You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”

Needs Should Mind Motivational Alive Acceptance Concepts Philosophical Seeds Divinity Be You Nurture Loving You Loving Yourself Acceptance Of Others Four Agreements Denying Yourself Great Philosophical

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”

Way Years Motivational Action Alive Risk Fronts Television Sitting Deny Inaction Taking Action Four Agreements Living Fully

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.”

People Reason Motivational Action Enjoy Opposites Rewards Reason Why Expecting Doing Your Best Four Agreements

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful. In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.”

Way Feels States Motivational Beautiful Wonderful Feel Good Perceive Bliss Agreement Making Love Make You Happy Loving You Loving Yourself Four Agreements Loving Everything

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”

People Way Want Feels Humans Motivational Form Suffering Company Hell Expression Communication Misery Likes Feel Better Human Society All Alone

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.”

Giving Feels Motivational Action Community Be Good Our Family Productive Live Your Life Doing Your Best Giving Yourself

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Motivational Judging Abuse Assuming Assumption

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.”

Feels Motivational Feel Good Make You Happy Loving You Loving Yourself Four Agreements Loving Everything

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?”

Mind Different Use Dream Reality Heaven Imagination Emotion Hell Creation Perception Why Not Perception Reality

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.”

Ifs Art Dream Love You Your Dreams Masterpiece

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.”

Ifs Needs Body Hands Action Dies Heaven Waiting Responsibility Hell Alive Right Now Your Body Our Future Taking Responsibility Your Future Here And Now Heaven Or Hell

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.”

Humans Earth Remember Animal Pay Mistake Judging Thousand Guilty Again And Again Same Mistakes

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.”

Life Years Different Dies Waiting Sun Air Tree Moon Fishes Billions Manifestation Immortal Butterfly

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.”

Believe Humans Truth Lying Grows Born Growing Up

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.”

Want Peace Voice Talking Experience Horse Inner Peace Wild Horses

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love”

Heart Expression

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.”

Believe Belief Existence Our Lives

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.”

Trying Looks Important Difficult Impossible Awareness

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.”

People Knows Character Stories Projection

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.”

People Needs Heart Today Imagine Inspirational Love

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.”

Our Lives Drama Conflict

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.”

People Ifs World Use Dream Joy Heaven Effort Five Creation Inspire Tools Your Dreams Agreement Contagious

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.”

Ifs Knows World Would Be Imagine Judging And Love Forgiving Selfish Heal Truthful Being Truthful Being Selfish Love And Forgiveness Heal The World

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.”

Self Grows Acceptance Self Love Forgiving Wounds Supreme Self Acceptance Forgive Yourself Love Grows

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”

Ifs Littles Persons Self Whole Walks Limits Abuse Whole Life Tolerate

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?”

Body Praying Harmony Your Body Cells Loyal

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I am made of light; I am made of stars.”

Made Light Stars

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.”

Speak Achieve Communicate Honestly Assumption

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.”

Art Creation Messages

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.”

Matter Life Is Enjoy Born Alive Risk Share Enjoy Your Life

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I turned my head to the sky, to the sun, to the stars, and put a little piece of my love in every star, in the moon, in the sun, and they loved me back. And I became one with the moon and the sun and the stars, and my love kept growing and growing. And I put a little piece of my love in every human, and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.”

Humans Littles Whole Eye Humanity Stars Sun Pieces Growing Sky Moon

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.”

People Knows Believe Stories Wonderful Communication Don't Believe

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

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