Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes from the Four Agreements

“Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.”

“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

“But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.”

“Every day we awake with a certain amount of mental, emotional, and physical energy that we spend throughout the day. If we allow our emotions to deplete our energy, we have no energy to change our lives or to give to others.”

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“Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”

“If others feel they have to change you, that means they really don't love you just the way you are. So why be with someone if you're not the way he or she wants you to be?”

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.”

“Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”

“Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.”

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“Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering, and tears.”

“The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.”

“Their addiction to suffering is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day.”

“True freedom has to do with the human spirit — it is the freedom to be who we really are.”

“Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.”

“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. It is an expression of God to say, “Hey, I love you.”

“Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.”

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“By making this one agreement a habit, your whole life will be completely transformed.”

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

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“I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”

“If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.”

“The First Agreement Be Impeccable with Your Word The First Agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor. It is so important that with just this first agreement you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth. The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word. It sounds very simple, but it is very, very powerful. Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John in the Bible, speaking of the creation of the universe, says, 'In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God.' Through the word you express your creative power. It is through the word that you manifest everything. Regardless of what language you speak, your intent manifests through the word. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word.”

“The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.”

“Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.”

“We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.”

“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”

“You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness.”

“You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”

“You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”

“What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”

“Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.”

“Don’t take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.”

“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.”

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“I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.”

“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you.”

“It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.”

“People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do.”

“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them.”

“Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit.”

“The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not.”

“The inner Judge uses what is in our Book of Law to judge everything we do and don’t do, everything we think and don’t think, and everything we feel and don’t feel. Everything lives under the tyranny of this Judge.”

“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”

“We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.”

“We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.” 

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

“Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.”

“You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.”

“When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”

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