1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Don Miguel Ruiz

Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“The truth leads to self-mastery, to a life that’s very easy; our distortion of the truth often leads to needless conflict and human suffering. Awareness makes all the difference.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: Mastery, Truth, mindfulness, Encouraging
“There’s a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Important, Life Tips, Letting Go, Free Soul
“Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn’t you.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills, Don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
Tagged: Inspirational, What People Think
“We don’t have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. If we are going to change, it is because we want to change, because we don’t want to suffer any longer.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Change, Human Relationships
“You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom(A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Great Ideas, Get To Work, Action Is The Answer, Turning Ideas Into A Reality
“Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about ‘me.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom(A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Narcissism, Me Me, selfishness
“You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you. When you truly understand this, and refuse to take things personally, you can hardly be hurt by the careless comments or actions of others.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Responsibility
“Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Let Go Of The Past, Moving On
“All humans are artists, all of us.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: Creativity, Creation
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Tagged: People, every person has their own world, self-absorption, self awareness, Self Construction, Own World, doing things for yourself, Freedom
“The only truth for you is what you perceive in your world. With this awareness, there’s nothing to prove to anyone. It’s not about being right or wrong. You respect whatever somebody says because it’s another artist speaking. Respect is so important. When you learn to listen, you show respect for the other artists — you show respect for their art, for their creation.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: Choose Yourself
“An attachment is the action of taking something that is not a part of you and making it a part of you through an emotional or energetic investment.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
Tagged: Defining Attachment, Investment
“Truly nothing matters but the present, because it is the only place where life can express itself.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
Tagged: Meaning, Time, What Matters In Life
“Unconditional love allows you to disagree with the choices or beliefs of others while still respecting their right to have them.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
Tagged: Love, Defining Love
“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Why People Get Upset, Anger
“It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Love, realtionships, Move On, Dating
“Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: selfishness
“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: real love, Acceptance, Change
“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Love, practice
“And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values — emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Partners, Dating, What To Look For In The Love Of Your Life
“All your life you tried to be good enough for somebody else, and you left yourself last. You sacrificed your personal freedom to live according to somebody else’s point of view.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: It's About You
“When you truly understand, you are likely to see what is true about others, and not just what you want to see.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Honesty, Authenticity
“If you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltecs, the Mastery of Love.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Love, Choose Yourself
“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Justice, Mistakes, Bad Past, Redemption, forgiveness
“It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Socratic Method, Assumptions, Never ASSUME
“The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Life Purpose, Meaning, Life
“Happiness never comes from outside of us. He was happy because of the love coming out of him; she was happy because of the love coming out of her. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Being Happy
“Life brings to you exactly what you need. There is perfect justice in hell. There is nothing to blame. We can even say that our suffering is a gift. If you just open your eyes and see what is around you, it’s exactly what you need to clean your poison, to heal your wounds, to accept yourself, and to get out of hell.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: life advice, Life, Self-Love
“A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Sin, Blame
“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: walk away, Abusive Relationships
“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.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: Self-Abuse, Give Yourself A Break
“Thank you, Creator of the Universe, for the gift of life you have given me. Thank you for giving me everything that I have ever truly needed. Thank you for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind. Thank you for living inside me with all your love, with your pure and boundless spirit, with your warm and radiant light.

Thank you for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go. I love you just the way you are, and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am. Help me to keep the love and the peace in my heart and to make that love a new way of life, that I may live in love the rest of my life. Amen.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Tagged: prayer, Prayers of Thanks, Thank You
“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. It doesn’t matter what others did to you, you are going to forgive them because you don’t want to feel sick all the time. Forgiveness is for your own mental healing. You will forgive because you feel compassion for yourself. Forgiveness is an act of self-love.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: forgiveness
loading next page...